Reborn sparrow becomes phoenix

Chapter 121 Firecrackers and New Clothes (Part [-])
Meijia cuisine hangs red lanterns high, Spring Festival couplets on the door, blessing characters on the wall, kumquats on the shelves, dried and fresh fruits on the table with a lot of sugar, the preparation is too big for the family The year is exactly the same, making people feel as casual as at home.

In fact, the launch of the New Year’s Eve dinner really set a precedent in Tianyun. Who would have thought that people would respond enthusiastically, probably because of the positioning of Meijia Cuisine itself. At the beginning, Xingye wanted it to have the feeling of a scholarly family in the late Qing Dynasty.

Most of the people who come are big families like Xingye and the others, and there are also those who can't reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year and invite three or five friends to come to celebrate the New Year.

Zhu Xiaojia is very talented in business, very considerate, very humane, just like she has prepared a lot of red envelopes for the children who come with her family. People may not care how much money is inside, but this The blessing of your heart will make people feel that you are sincere and considerate.

When Xingye and his group arrived, it was already dark, and many people had already arrived. Zhu Xiaojia was setting off fireworks with a few children. They were all small ones that could be held in the hand, very safe and naive. But five or six children were having fun, and even Zhu Xiaojia laughed like a child.

Aunt Mei said to Xingye and the others with some embarrassment: "This girl, when she plays like a child, I'll call her and tell her not to delay things."

"No need, Aunt Mei, please lead everyone to the room first," Xing Ye quickly stopped, "I think it's quite interesting, I still want to go and see it! Brother, let's go and see it together, shall we?"

"You're just a child," Hui Ye said, but he still followed her, everyone laughed, this is also a good brother who listens to his sister.

When Xiaojia saw Xingye and the others come in just now, she didn't want to play, but the children were too enthusiastic and surrounded her not to let her go.

"Look, my sister's boss is here. If she sees that I'm not working here, it's time to reprimand me." Xiao Jia tried to communicate with the children.

"My father has a lot of money, let him also give a lot of money to my sister, and my sister will play with me." A five or six-year-old boy said, this child does not know which rich family's child it is.

His words were also supported by other children, "Yes, my dad also has it, give it to my sister, "I will give it too." For a while, several children rushed to say, it's no wonder that it can cost thousands of yuan for a New Year's Eve meal. People who eat at night are either rich or expensive!

Xiaojia couldn't laugh or cry, seeing Xingye hugging her shoulders and watching her jokes, she had to say to the children: "Did you see that sister over there? She is my boss. If I don't go to work, she will probably scold me later." , then my sister will be miserable."

The children looked in the direction she pointed, saw Xingye looking at them, and fell silent, only one older girl said: "Sister is not afraid of her, if she dares to scold you, I will let my father scold her, He listens to me the most, my father is a high official, and his subordinates are afraid of him."

Zhu Xiaojia was speechless, but Xingye laughed until her stomach ached.

"Okay, my boss has given you an order, you just need to coax these little guests tonight." Xingye smiled.

"Okay, you mean what you say, don't come to me when you have something to do, let them come to you directly." Xiaojia said, and then greeted the children, "Come on, sister will give each of you a little bee just now, we will continue Play."

It was Hui Ye's first visit to the old house since he went to the provincial capital, and the first time he saw Zhu Xiaojia. Xing Ye introduced him, "Aunt Mei's daughter, sister Xiao Jia, is the manager here. Maybe she did it. Everything here depends on her."

Hui Ye looked around, and his eyes fell on Xiao Jia who was having fun again, "It's rare that such a capable person can still maintain a childlike innocence."

Xingye smiled, "She's the same age as you, and she's not too old to say the least, come on, let's put one too, to find our childlike innocence."

Kaguya naturally followed her, found two linear morning light sticks, lit each of them and took one in his hand, watching the small sparks flying up and down with the movement of his hands, like a falling meteor.

"It seems to be back to my childhood." Xingye smiled sweetly.

"When I was a child, I didn't play this. I was a boy and all I played were crackling firecrackers." Kaguya also recalled.

"Yeah, I remember that once you went to the river with a group of boys to set off firecrackers, and you said you wouldn't take me there when it was dark. Big hole, I went home crying, I felt relieved at the time, I deserve it, who told you not to take me there." Xingye felt amused at his little bad-heartedness at that time.

Hui Ye also remembered, and said: "Life was difficult at that time, few adults would buy firecrackers for children to play with, didn't we all see who had just set off the firecrackers after worshiping the ancestors, and ran to find the one in the paper scraps?" Come to play with the loud one, find one that can show off for a long time! If you are willing to light it up! It’s just a few people put together to put it together, and when you encounter a smelly one, you can’t bear it, so you take it apart and get some inside Playing with gunpowder, I didn't expect to burn a big hole in the chest of my clothes."

"Yes, happiness at that time came so easily, a new dress can make people happy for a long time," Xing Ye said.

"Do you know why I came back crying?" Hui Ye asked, and before Xing Ye could answer, she said, "It's not because I was afraid of being beaten, but because I felt sorry for that dress. You don't remember that at that time. I was almost ten years old at that time. I'm old, and I clearly remember what my parents said years ago to make new clothes for someone.

"Father loves me so much, he must be saying that he wants to do it for me, right?" Xingye asked feelingly.

Hui Ye smiled, nodded and said: "Mom said that I have already gone to school and I am an older child. If I know it is better, I should make a new one for me. I can't let my classmates look down on me. Dad said, you are a girl, a girl." Children love beautiful and new clothes. Otherwise, if others have them, you will be sad if you don’t. Mom retorted, it’s better if you’re still young, and I’ll change it to a smaller one. Dad said I’m a skinny boy and wear new clothes. I don’t know how to cherish it. It won’t be broken after a few days. Neither of the two can convince the other. In the end, my father made the decision and said that if we want to do it, we will make new ones. That year, we bought the cotton for the clothes and cotton for the new year’s goods. , Dad said, you can buy as much New Year’s goods with the remaining money, and you can always pass this year.”

"That's why you cry when that dress is torn." Xingye's eyes turned red.

Hui Ye looked at Xing Ye so sad that she was about to cry, so she quickly changed her mouth and said, "At that time, I was also a kid who couldn't think of so many things, but I just heard my father say that I was a brat, I didn't know how to cherish clothes, and I was not convinced. I like the new clothes! I was thinking about it at first, I must cherish the clothes and show my dad, but it’s just like what my dad said, it will be broken in two days, can I not cry? "

Xingye broke into tears and laughed, and Huiye saw that her mood improved, and said: "What about you! How old were you at that time! Seeing how sad I was crying, I thought I was crying because my new clothes were broken and I couldn't wear them. If you insist on wearing your little flower padded jacket for me, you will cry if I don’t want you, and you don’t even think about how I can wear it.”

Xingye was embarrassed, "Am I out of good intentions? At that time, I also struggled in my heart for a long time, and thought about countless things you have done to me, so I was willing to give you new clothes. Although I forgot that you couldn't wear them at all, but when I saw When you hold my new clothes with two fingers, my heart is bleeding."

Kaguya laughed, "Please, you were only six years old at the time, right? You were still five years old, and your heart was still bleeding. How could you use such an adjective!"

Xingye pouted, "I wouldn't say that at the time, but I really couldn't bear it. Now I will naturally find appropriate words to describe my feelings at that time. It's that kind of distressed feeling."

Hui Ye smiled fondly, "Okay, in order to make up for your heartache, I will make you dozens of cotton-padded jackets, and let you wear one a year until you are 90 years old. What's wrong? Angry? Come on, order another one." I'll give it to you, let's see what embarrassing things you can think of about me."

Xingye took the morning light stick from Huiye, and smiled again in the flickering firelight.

The door of the Qin Pavilion on the opposite side opened, and a young woman walked out, calling out to her daughter who was playing in the yard, "Yaoyao, the food is served, go wash your hands with mom, and get ready to eat."

An eight or nine-year-old girl was having fun, when she heard her mother calling her, she said without looking back, "Mom, I'll play for a while, you go and eat first, don't worry about me."

The woman "Yaoyao" took two steps, carefully avoiding the fireworks in the children's hands, and said: "Today is New Year's Eve, and we are going to have a reunion dinner. Your grandparents are here, so you must be there too. Be obedient, hurry up!" Come in with me."

The little girl threw the fireworks in her hand to the ground and complained, "Anyway, grandma doesn't like me, she only likes her brother, and they will be happier without me."

"Don't talk nonsense," the woman said about her daughter, and looked back alertly, "How can grandma not like you as a granddaughter! If you are obedient, grandpa and grandma will naturally like you."

"But brother is not good at all, don't you also say he is a bad boy, why grandma still likes him, no matter how good Yaoyao is, grandma doesn't like Yaoyao." The more the little girl said, the more sad she became.

"Don't talk nonsense," the woman looked around, especially the three of Xiaojia, Xingye Huiye, and said to her daughter: "Come into the room with me, don't talk nonsense anymore, it's very rude of you to say that just now Do you know how to be polite?"

"Oh..." Although the little girl was full of reluctance, she still followed her mother.

Zhu Xiaojia also took the opportunity to say: "Okay, kids, let's go eat delicious food. After you are full, sister will set off bigger and more beautiful fireworks for you."

The children heard that there was delicious food and that there would be better fireworks to watch later, so they all went back to their rooms obediently.

Zhu Xiaojia came over to say hello to Xingye, and talked to Huiye who was familiar with him.

Xingye has been silent all the time. At first she didn't care that there were many children. When the woman came out and called the child's name, Xingye thought of their mother and daughter identities. Zhang Honghai's wife and daughter. If they were there, it would be Zhang Honghai. Hong Hai's family also chose to have New Year's Eve dinner here, and the people sitting in the piano pavilion are their family at this time, is it just a coincidence?

"Why are you in a daze? Let's go, we're going back to the room too." Hui Ye said.

Xingye came back to his senses, and followed Huiye Xiaojia back to their fixed room.

(End of this chapter)