Pastoral Valley Fragrance

Chapter 9

New Year's Eve.Li Dequan's family had New Year's Eve dinner with their second uncle.

You don't have to be polite if you are familiar with each other. I just ate a thin strip of bacon given by Li Dejiang, and there was a big pork bone and radish stewed in the pot. Although it was not a very good thing, it still tasted like meat.

Originally, Mrs. Wang wanted to use the meat to get some oil out, but seeing Gu Yu's thin body, she finally gritted her teeth and chopped it up and ate it together.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the seven people gathered around the fire to watch the New Year's Eve. Gu Yu couldn't stand it any longer and fell asleep on Wang's lap.

Gu Yu was woken up early in the morning by Xiao Man, she rubbed her eyes and said, "Sister, it's not bright yet, sleep on for a while."

Xiaoman pulled Gu Yu who was about to shrink into the bed, "This is not good, I have to pay New Year's greetings today."

Saying this, Gu Yu was even more unhappy, "What kind of year do you wish, you might be kicked out by then."

Xiaoman said firmly: "No matter what, we have to go, not only to grandma's house, but also to grandma's house, grandma's house, grandma's house, and grandma's house, we don't want to be singled out by others, when the time comes, what is reasonable becomes unreasonable, so let's go They didn't even talk."

Among the three brothers and sisters, only Xiaoman often followed Li Dequan back to his hometown, so he naturally understood some things about Zhuangzi. Since it was about this, Gu Yu had no choice but to lazily put on the padded jacket.After going out, Jing Zhe was already waiting for them in the main room.

The three kowtowed to their parents first, and then to their second uncle, and each got a small red envelope made of red paper.

Jing Zhe looked at Gu Yu shrinking her neck to avoid the cold, and came to hold her. Gu Yu's icy hands felt a little warm. After receiving the red envelope, she hurried into the room, put it under the pillow, and ran out again. Holding Jing Zhe with one hand and Xiao Man with the other, they walked towards Li's house.

Many people got up on the road, mostly children.

Li's house is very close to the second uncle's house, bypassing the vegetable garden, that's all.

The adults also got up, Li He and Li Jiahou were sitting in the main room, on both sides were the elder uncle's family and the second uncle's family, standing beside Li He must be fourth uncle Li Dehe and little aunt Li Qiao'e.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the main room, Li Qiu opened his arms and stood in front of the door. He was wearing a new red padded jacket and a silk flower on his head, which was exactly the same as the one on Gu Yu's head. This made Gu Yu want to pick off the flower on his head immediately.

That's not enough, Li Qiu still called out: "Big brother and second brother, they are the ones who want to make our family poor, so they still have the face to come to pay New Year's greetings!"

Jing Zhe let out a sneer, and turned his face away, but Xiaoman looked amused at the two cousins ​​who came over, stood there and shouted: "Grandpa, grandma, we came to pay New Year's greetings, I didn't expect that there are still a few door gods guarding here." ah."

Seeing that no one was moving in the room, Qiao'e came over and said: "Lichun Lixia, don't listen to Liqiu's nonsense, get out of the way quickly, there is no reason to stop people in this New Year's greeting."

Li Qiu was willing to listen, and directed her two silly brothers, "If you dare to let them in, I will ask mother not to give you eggs again!"

As soon as the words fell, Li Qiu was brought up. Just as Li Qiu was about to make a fuss, seeing Li Dejiang looking at her, he hurried to find Mrs. Zhang.

Seeing Lichun Lixia still guarding the door, Li Dejiang yelled: "Your sister is ignorant and you are ignorant too. How old are you? Seeing people Jingzhe, this couple can write. What else can you do besides playing with mud!"

The two boys were frightened by this call and ran away, but they still shouted: "Li Qiu, it's not that we don't let you go, you left first."

Mrs. Zhang yelled angrily: "It's really a dog catching mice and meddling in other people's business. The baby I gave birth to will naturally be taught by me. If others want to take care of it, they can give birth to it myself!"

Li Dequan said without holding back, "Sister-in-law, did you teach me to block the door on the first day of the new year?"

Only then did Mrs. Zhang stop talking, not daring to say anything more.There was a flurry of hands, and I didn't know what I was doing.

One thing falls one thing, Gu Yu feels secretly refreshed.

The three brothers and sisters stepped forward and kowtowed respectfully to Li He's Li Jiahou.

Old man Li smiled, "Good boy" and sent them small red envelopes. Li He didn't smile at all, and passed three red envelopes expressionlessly. Gu Yu touched them vigorously and put them in the pockets of his clothes.

I went to pay New Year's greetings to my uncles and uncles one by one. My auntie and I had red envelopes that were so light, but Gu Yu kept them out on purpose, and went back to see how much it was.The second aunt looked at the 27-year-old, with straight eyebrows, but she looked a little bitter. Although she was smiling at this time, she still felt a little restrained.Second Uncle's red envelope was very heavy, Jing Zhe was about to speak.Li Dejiang said: "Okay, you go to the third grandma's first, the family is still waiting for dinner, come back tomorrow."

Jing Zhe took Gu Yu by the hand, and the three brothers and sisters went out, and walked half a circle around the Zhuangzi. Fortunately, Xiao Man knew each other, so it was finally New Year's greetings.

Back home, Mrs. Wang was frying radish cakes. The thin and white radish cakes were put on a bamboo basket and cut into pieces. At this time, the sides turned yellow.Looking at it, I drool a little.

Over there, the second uncle is cooking the soup, "The three children are back, try the soup that the second uncle made for you today, and keep you full."

The scent came in bursts, Gu Yuqiang ran into the room according to the urge to eat, opened the red envelopes one by one, most of them were one or two big money, two of them were very special, one red envelope was relatively heavy, open it and count, There are twenty coins, and the other one has nothing, just an empty red envelope, who is it if it is not the eldest aunt?
Now Gu Yu was a little annoyed, "Mother—"

Wang smiled: "Gu Yu is hungry, she will be ready soon, wait a minute."

Gu Yu was not happy, so she tugged at the corner of Wang's clothes and continued to call: "Mother—"

Only then did Wang turn her head around and saw Gu Yu pouted, "What's wrong with Gu Yu, she pouted during Chinese New Year."

Gu Yu shook the red paper in his hand, "Mom, I went to pay New Year's greetings to my aunt, and she gave me an empty red envelope."

Wang frowned, handed the shovel in her hand to Xiao Man, and touched Gu Yu's face: "Gu Yu is good, maybe you accidentally dropped it, there will be no empty red envelopes."

Jing Zhe also spoke, "Mother, Gu Yu didn't say anything, but Auntie's red envelope is always in her hand, isn't that right?"

When Xiaoman heard this, he laughed, "Mother, you don't know. When we went, Liqiu asked Lichun Lixia to block the gate, and was taught a lesson by the second uncle. The eldest aunt got angry. It's not unusual for us to give empty red envelopes. I don't care about her big money."

The second uncle laughed loudly, "It's thanks to her that she figured it out, Gu Yu, don't be unhappy, we really don't care about her money, but if this gets out, your grandma will save face, and maybe it will cause another commotion."

Gu Yu nodded, frowned and said: "Second Uncle, Gu Yu won't talk about it. Grandma's side is not good, so I can't talk about it. Don't bother with them."

The second uncle smiled again, "Oh, our Gu Yu has become a little adult, for Gu Yu's cuteness, today's radish cake, you have to eat first."

Gu Yu didn't refuse, and took it with a smile. The fried radish cake was poured with the soup specially cooked by the second uncle. The radishes were all melted, soft and soft, the unhappiness just now was swept away, and I started to eat big mouthfuls.

(End of this chapter)