slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 351

"Haiwazi, Happy New Year!"

Cang Hai had just woken up, and as soon as he walked out the door after washing, he heard Uncle Wei Wenkui say a happy new year to him.

"Uncle Wei, Happy New Year!" Cang Hai hastily cupped his hands at Wei Wenkui.

"You haven't gotten up yet?" Wei Wenkui said with a smile.

Cang Hai nodded, and scanned his surroundings with his eyes: "Probably so!"

Seeing Cang Hai come out, Wei Wenkui took out a red envelope from his pocket: "Happy New Year, happy family!"

Cang Hai immediately accepted the red envelope when he heard it, and he didn't care about being outside anymore. Anyway, he was wearing thick clothes, so he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Wei Wenkui: "Thank you, old man, your family is happy too, and I wish you a happy family. You will embrace your grandson as soon as possible!"

"I love to hear that!" Wei Wenkui smiled and pulled Cang Hai up from the ground.

The custom here is that the elders give red envelopes, and the younger generations must kowtow. I don’t know when this rule came into being. It’s always been like this since Da Canghai remembered.

"Where are you going? Grandpa Hu's house to ask for red envelopes?" Cang Hai joked with a smile.

Don't look at Wei Changkui, who is in his dozen years, to order red envelopes from elders like Hu Shijie and Li Licheng, he still has to kowtow to the elders just like Cang Hai.

After Cang Hai finished speaking, he saw Wei Changsheng, Wei Changhao, and Wei Changli coming out of the kiln of the third uncle's house, all with smiles on their faces and holding a red envelope in their hands.

The three of them had just left the kiln door of Cang Shiyuan's house, and when they saw Cang Hai coming out, their eyes lit up immediately, and they all bent over to Cang Hai in unison: "Second Brother Cang Hai, Happy New Year!"

After saying Happy New Year, the waist didn't straighten up anymore, but each of them stretched out their palms and made a movement of rubbing money. It was obvious that they wanted New Year's money.

Cang Hai saw it and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, I'll go back and get you red envelopes!"

Just woke up in the morning, Cang Hai was not prepared at all.

After talking, he turned back to the house, searched for a while, but found nothing, and immediately came to the bedroom, sat next to Shi Wei and pushed Shi Wei: "Hey, Shi Wei, where is the red envelope prepared by our family?"

Shi Wei opened her eyes and said in a daze, "Isn't it placed in the blue and white jar on the living room table?"

"Is there?" Cang Hai asked.

"It's inside, the one on the left," Shi Wei said.

Cang Hai patted his head: "I forgot, I touched the jar on the right just now."

After finishing speaking, Cang Hai walked out of the bedroom again, came to the living room and reached into the blue and white decoration on the left to check, and sure enough, he caught a handful of red envelopes.

Holding seven or eight red envelopes, Cang Hai turned to the door of the bedroom and asked Shi Wei who was still asleep inside, "What kind of dumplings do you want to eat in the morning?"

"casual"

After getting this answer, Cang Hai opened the door curtain and walked out of the kiln, and gave the red envelopes in his hands to the three brothers and sisters Chang Sheng, Chang Li and Chang Hao one by one.

"Thank you brother!"

The three guys thanked Cang Hai in unison, bowed deeply to Cang Hai, and then stretched out their hands to accept the red envelope, straightened up happily, and opened the red envelope with a smile in front of Cang Hai, and put the brand new inside Ten yuan was taken out and put in his pocket.

In Sijiaping Village, the New Year’s money is ten yuan, which has not increased for many years. Cang Hai remembers that when he was a child, it was only fifty cents in the year when he was the least.

In many places, the New Year's red envelopes are quite large, giving thousands or even tens of thousands of things, and children who are half-grown will receive a thick wad of money.

But for the people in the town, lucky money and New Year's red envelopes are a kind of beautiful meaning, it does not depend on the amount of money, nor will it add unnecessary burden to each family's life, usually it is some small money, no matter how rich People give their children fifty at most, and very few hundred.

Those who give money and those who receive money are also particular. Those who receive money are unmarried young people or children, or juniors, while those who give money are married or elders.

The three brothers and sisters Wei Changsheng asked Cang Hai for New Year's money because Cang Hai married Shi Wei, the second sister-in-law, back this year, and the married elder brother can ask for money. If Cang Hai is not married, Cang Hai doesn't need to give them New Year's money.

The custom here is to be considered an official adult when you get married. As the old saying goes, when you start a family and start a business, you are officially an adult when you become a family.So this year Canghai can only give the red envelopes to his peers but not receive them.

The three brothers and sisters of the Wei family accepted the red envelope happily, turned their heads and walked towards the door of Li Licheng's kiln.

After greeting Cang Hai, Wei Wenkui followed into the kiln of his brother-in-law Cang Shiyuan's house.

Cang Hai went to the kitchen, lit a fire by himself, waited for the water to boil, put down two bowls of dumplings, waited for the dumplings to be ready, scooped them up and adjusted the dipping sauce, and brought the two bowls of dumplings into the house together with the dipping sauce Inside, put the small Kang stool directly on the bed.

"Get up and eat." Cang Hai pushed Shi Wei who was sleeping in a daze.

While pushing, he took a bite and put the fragrant dumpling next to Shi Wei's nose.

Shi Wei was sleeping in a daze, smelling the smell of dumplings in her nose, her two small and delicate nostrils flapped, and quickly opened her eyes.

"smell good!"

Cang Hai smiled and put half of the dumpling into his mouth, put down his chopsticks, took a pillow and put it behind Shi Wei, and helped Shi Wei sit up on the bed.

Seeing Cang Hai doing this, Shi Wei said happily, "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

"Don't pay attention to this during the New Year's Eve, go to sleep after eating the dumplings!" Cang Hai pushed another bowl of dumplings on the kang table in front of Shi Wei while talking.

"I put a little of all four. The black ones are stuffed with horse vegetables, the white ones are stuffed with pure meat, and the green ones are made with leeks or celery. It depends on your luck. Be careful, maybe you can get buns. money," Cang Hai said, putting the other pair of chopsticks on the table into Shi Wei's hands.

"The first day of the new year, isn't this bad?" Shi Wei said with a smile.

According to the old customs, if you do it on New Year's Day, you will do it all year round. The old custom means auspiciousness.

What Shi Wei said meant that Cang Hai served him this way on the first day of the Lunar New Year today, and then he would do the same for the next whole year.Generally speaking, women serve dumplings to their men and children today, not the other way around like now.

"I'll do it for a year, I'll serve you dumplings now, and when I grow old, you can push me a wheelchair and we'll have a head and a tail," Cang Hai said jokingly.

"Hahaha!" Shi Wei was amused by Cang Hai, picked up the chopsticks and started to eat dumplings without caring whether she brushed her teeth or not.

After the two of them finished eating the dumplings, Cang Hai put away the kang table, and then put the bowls and chopsticks back into the kitchen. After Shi Wei enjoyed her lover's service, she lay back in the bed again and continued to sleep beautifully.

When Cang Hai came back and saw Shi Wei laying down again, he felt a little bored, went out of the kiln and went to Mengmeng's room, reached out and tapped on the window lightly, wanting to see Qi Yue and Mengmeng get up again no.

The result is self-evident, Mengmeng and Qiyue didn't even say a word, until the two guys, Slippery and Tietou, heard the movement and rushed out.

After playing with Slick and Tie Tou for a while, Cang Hai drove them into the kitchen, turned to Qi Feng and Xu Xiaomin at the entrance of the kiln, and gently knocked on the door twice.

Just as he was about to leave, Xu Xiaomin's voice came from the kiln: "Who is it?"

"Godmother, it's me, are you up yet? If you get up, I'll cook dumplings for you two," Cang Hai said.

Hearing Cang Hai's voice, Xu Xiaomin hurriedly came to the kiln door, stretched out his hand and opened the kiln door, opened the curtain and smiled at Cang Hai: "Get up!"

Cang Hai stretched his head in, and said Happy New Year to Qi Feng, and Qi Feng took out a red envelope from his pocket.

Cang Hai didn't need to pinch it when he took it, he knew that there was a lot of money in it, the thick stack should be 1 yuan.

"Godfather, we didn't give so much here, just ten yuan, I can't take it if you give too much, this thing is just for auspiciousness, the amount can't be too much" Cang Hai immediately put the red envelope back to Qi Feng hands.

The Red Envelopes in Shanghai generally give a lot of red envelopes, hundreds of thousands, or even tens of thousands, depending on the situation of your own family, but in general they give a lot, compared to families with children Red envelopes are mutual, if you give me a child, then I will give you a child, and the account will be settled in two strokes, and no one will suffer, but for unmarried elders, if there are so many juniors in the family, if they only get out but can't get in, then they will be happy. It hurts.It's really quite a burden.

"I know, but this is for you, others are also ten yuan." Qi Feng pushed the red envelope back again.

Cang Hai still said: "Godfather, New Year's money and red envelopes are just a meaning. It's not appropriate to give too much. When you come to our place, just follow our habits."

Qi Feng stopped pushing now, he also knew that Cang Hai did not lack the ten thousand yuan, so he had to put away the big red envelope, took a small red envelope containing ten yuan from his pocket, and handed it to Cang Hai : "Cang Hai, Happy New Year!"

Only then did Cang Hai accept the red envelope, and said: "Thank you godfather, thank you godmother, happy new year to both of you."

After speaking, Cang Hai bowed deeply to the two of them. Actually, according to the custom, Cang Hai should kowtow when receiving the red envelopes from elders, but Cang Hai was afraid of scaring the two, so he bowed instead.

After the fun, Cang Hai, Qi Feng, and Xu Xiaomin went to the kitchen to cook dumplings. When the dumplings were almost ready, two long-legged old men, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng, just arrived.Cang Hai had no choice but to put the dumplings on two plates for the four of them to share, while he ordered another three bowls of dumplings.

After eating the dumplings and receiving the red envelopes from the two old men, Cang Hai went to the third uncle's house to get some red envelopes.

"Third Uncle, Third Aunt, Happy New Year!"

As soon as Cang Hai entered the door, he bowed his hands to the third uncle and the third aunt and said a word.

Cang Shiyuan took out the red envelope and shook it towards Cang Hai.

Cang Hai immediately understood, knelt down, and kowtowed to the third uncle. After accepting the red envelope, seeing the third aunt took out another red envelope from her pocket, Cang Hai swiftly brought another one to the third aunt, and was very happy Holding a 20 yuan red envelope, I continued to go to my uncle's house.

When I arrived at the uncle's house, I kowtowed twice and got a 20 yuan red envelope, but I also gave out two red envelopes. Apart from my cousin Cang Jing, the boy Canghenan also received red envelopes at Cangshigui's house.Cang Hexing is the elder brother, he is not married yet, so he saved the red envelope for Cang Hai.

After running through the house of the third uncle with the same surname, Cang Hai went to Hu Shijie's house again.

The kiln at Hu Shijie’s house was very lively. When I picked up the curtain and went in, the family was full. As soon as I entered the room, I saw Hu Mingguang and his wife kneeling side by side on the ground, all of them stretched out their hands to ask Hu Shijie for money. Woolen cloth.The Hu Mingguang couple and the three grandchildren who were watching nearby were all smiling, seeing what happened last night.

"Big, give the red envelope!"

Hu Guangming and his wife had just finished kowtowing, and they knelt on the ground shaking their hands without getting up. Hu Shijie smiled and took out two red envelopes from his pocket, and handed them to his son and wife one by one.

At the same time, I said auspicious words: "Everything goes well in the New Year, and the days are prosperous."

"Thank you big!"

The couple accepted the red envelopes and stood up from the ground smiling.

Cang Hai saw that the seat was vacant, so he rushed to the front to kowtow to Grandpa Hu to receive a red envelope, but he was pushed aside by Hu Mingguang and his wife before he approached.

"Why are you so anxious, we haven't kowtow yet?" Hu Mingguang smiled and pushed Cang Hai slightly.

Cang Hai smiled and said, "I have to catch up with the next family!"

"What are you doing here alone, kid, where's the doctor?"

"I can't wait any longer, Shi Wei is still asleep, don't worry, you think you can still save my wife's red envelope?" Cang Hai said jokingly.

In the room, Hu Shijie, Hu Mingshan, and Hu Mingguang laughed loudly when they heard Cang Hai's words.

(End of this chapter)