Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 42
The cloth flowers were selling well, and soon I saw someone in the village wearing them, because the Chinese New Year was approaching, and there were a lot of red ones, Qin also told Du Xiaoyu to make more of this color, and as she expected, At the beginning, there were more people who bought cloth flowers for one penny, but later, more people bought five pennies.

But this has no future. Anyone can make cloth flowers. The main reason why she will do it is because of the free clothing materials. After that, we will no longer sell cloth flowers.And according to the current estimate, if they sell all of them, they can probably earn two or two taels of silver, which is not too little if she saves them for private money.

The new year is getting closer and closer, and more than ten days have passed by in a flash. After worshiping the Kitchen God, it will be the last day of the year.

Du Xiaoyu was very excited. She had never celebrated the New Year with her family when she was so old, and now she could finally feel the joyful atmosphere.

"Second brother, write the Spring Festival couplets quickly, I think other people have already pasted them up." She actively rubbed the ink, flattened the red paper, and took the initiative to take charge of the task of pasting the Spring Festival couplets.

Du Wenyuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then picked up a pen and wrote, the handwriting was very elegant. Du Xiaoyu looked down and wrote, "Everything goes well and auspiciously, every family goes well forever." It is very simple and festive, It was not obtrusive to stick on the door, so she brought another pair of papers, "I also want to stick one on the back door, and two more banners."

After finishing writing, she cut the extra red paper into a square shape, and then wrote two characters of blessing with a pen.

Paste is the usual method for pasting Spring Festival couplets. She had already made it. She took a bench and stepped on it to paste it. Du Wenyuan stood below to see if it was straight. , he couldn't help frowning, "Don't look at it either."

"What's wrong, look, the fortune is here, the fortune is here, the fortune is here immediately, and our family will be prosperous soon!" Du Xiaoyu had already thought about it, and their family had to change their luck no matter how poor they were all year round. Seeing people posting this on the door is very envious, and this time I can finally post it myself.

Du Wenyuan shook his head, he could think of all these strange things, but Mrs. Zhao over there heard it, but praised her rarely, "The words sound good, go, and write two more posters on the back wall."

Seeing that Mrs. Zhao liked it, Du Xiaoyu wrote a few more and posted them later.

Du Huanghua was kneading the dough over there, preparing to eat dumplings at night. When the family was enjoying themselves, someone said at the door, "I'm busy, no wonder there is no one at the gate of the courtyard."

Mrs. Zhao looked back and found it was Mrs. Wu, so she frowned. She told her not to come last time, but she still didn't have a long memory.

"Mother asked you to have a New Year's Eve dinner." Wu said with a smile, "It's been a long time since our big family celebrates the New Year together, I miss you very much!"

"No, we're used to living alone." Mrs. Zhao said coldly.

Du Xian walked in from the backyard, saw Mrs. Wu standing and hurriedly said, "Oh, it's rare to come here, third sibling, sit down quickly, sit down quickly."

Mrs. Zhao glared at him, "I'm busy over there, why don't I sit, I have to go back."

As soon as Wu was about to sit down and heard the words, she stopped abruptly. She was very embarrassed. In fact, she didn't want to come, but the mother-in-law at home was not easy to disobey. Yes, everyone in the village knows that it's normal to have a New Year's Eve dinner this time, is it always a family, why bother..."

"Shut up!" Zhao said angrily, "Are you forcing me not to see you again?"

"No, no, I..." Mrs. Wu pursed her lips, in a dilemma. If she went back like this, her mother-in-law would show her face again, but the sister-in-law obviously refused. What she said would only annoy her, and she would be bullied by her husband in the future. I'm afraid I can't come here to pour bitter water.She was about to cry when she thought about it, and stammered, "Why don't you let the elder brother go back and have a look alone? It's always mother and son."

Mrs. Zhao's face darkened and she was about to explode again. Du Xian hurriedly pulled Mrs. Wu out, "Sisters and sisters, go back quickly," he said softly when he got outside, "Just tell mother that I don't want to go back. It's none of your wife's business."

Wu Shi sighed and had to leave.

But once disturbed by her, the atmosphere at home became a bit tense, Du Xiaoyu thought that this grandmother is really haunted, she has to send someone to harass her every once in a while, it's really annoying!

Zhao Shi went into the inner room with a grimace, seeing that Du Xian was going in too, Du Xiaoyu rushed up to hold him back, "Father, there are jujube glutinous rice balls stewed on the stove, just now mother said that she wanted to eat something to fill her belly, Put a bowl in quickly."

Du Xian thought so too, the lady is not easy to coax, she likes to make people look bad, he knows this feeling very well, so he quickly filled a bowl of jujube soup and brought it in.

"Hey, I don't think it will stop at grandma's side." Du Xiaoyu sighed, "Father probably won't go secretly at night, right?"

Seeing her young adult appearance, Du Huanghua laughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, dad doesn't know what mother thinks, how could he go, even if he goes, he has to get mother's consent." As he spoke, he glanced at Du Wenyuan, On the contrary, this younger brother may still do such a thing, so he said, "Mother loves us the most, so we must not let Mother down."

Du Xiaoyu immediately thought of it, and while Du Huanghua was preparing the stuffing, he hurriedly dragged Du Wenyuan to his room.

"Second brother, you must not go at night! Mother is angry, if she finds out that you secretly go to grandma's place, it will be terrible!"

"Who said I'm going today?" Du Wenyuan narrowed his eyes.

"Then you won't go in the future?" She still doesn't understand what he said that day. Since they wanted to beat their mother to death, why did Du Wenyuan go to grandma's house?Now that they have all been kicked out of the house, can't they have some dignity?She couldn't figure it out, Du Wenyuan was clearly not this kind of person, so why?

Du Wenyuan didn't speak.

There was something flickering in those eyes, obviously hesitant, she stared at him, and asked seriously, "Second brother, let me ask you again, do you really have the heart to make mother sad and let us all down?"

He fixed his eyes, and slowly shook his head, but he still didn't say what he wanted to say.

But her heart moved. He shook his head because he didn't want them to be sad and disappointed, but he still wanted to do it. That can only show one thing, he has a very strong purpose!On that day, he emphasized that the second uncle wanted to beat his mother to death, but ended up hurting his father. This shows how cold-blooded his grandmother and even the uncles are to their family. So, could he be taking advantage of his grandmother's respect to take revenge?

During this period of time, it is not difficult to see that the second uncle and the younger aunt are extremely jealous of Du Wenyuan. They are just afraid that he will return to Du's house to compete with them for the family property. If he does go back, it is not impossible...

She nodded her head thinking about it, then smiled and said, "Second brother, let's go, let's help my sister make dumplings." Then she turned and left the door. No matter what purpose this second brother has, it is still for the sake of the family. This is enough, and if he wants to change his mind, he can only find a suitable opportunity in the future.

At this moment, Du Huanghua came out with two plates of dumpling stuffing, one was pork with cabbage and the other was pork with leeks. When all the preparations were done, Zhao's side also calmed down. Needless to say, it must have taken Du Xianhao Work harder.

Now that the New Year can finally be celebrated safely, Du Xiaoyu is relieved.

When the firecrackers sounded in the evening, the whole village was full of cheers, and their family was no exception. Eight cannon battles were set off, resounding through the sky.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, there is a night vigil, and firecrackers will be set off at midnight to usher in the real new year.

At this time, the village became more lively. They went from house to house, squatting together, playing horses, chatting together, and children playing and playing, from the beginning of the village to the end of the village.

Horse hangings are already popular nowadays, and Pang Yong's family has one, and Mrs. Qin brought two wives to Du Xian's house to play.

Du Xiaoyu just watched from the side when he had nothing to do. The Qin family had expected to play well, but what she didn't expect was that her mother also played well. It seems that there is practice every year during the holidays, but from what they said, Aunt Wu turned out to be the best horse hanger, but it's a pity that she went to Feixian Town this year, Qin said otherwise they would all be busy paying out money.

But Du Xian didn't know how to play this, so he and Pang Yong set up the chessboard to play chess.

Pang Yong was obviously not Du Xian's opponent. After losing more than a dozen games in a row, he finally quit and asked his son to come up to him. Of course, he was not an opponent either.Du Xian was bored, so when he saw his son Du Wenyuan was idle, he called him to try it out, but who would have thought that he would lose the next game? He was so angry that he couldn't help asking, "When did you learn it?" He studied all day long. I can actually play chess.

Du Xiaoyu interjected, "Father, there's nothing in the book, what's the point of playing chess?"

Du Xian stared at his son and said unwillingly, "Go to the village to find Lao Huai tomorrow, and win a game of ten coins!"

Du Xiaoyu burst out laughing, it's rare for this father to have a hobby that he is proud of, and this second brother is too shameless, so he said, "Second brother, have you memorized the chess records? Dad's next game."

This round Du Xian finally won, he smiled happily.

"Ginger is still old and hot." Du Wenyuan also praised him, and quickly stood up to make way.

It was such a fun night.

(End of this chapter)