161: Zhou Cheng's Family Knows! (6 More)

Xia Ziyu directed and acted in the Xia family a good play that could almost touch her.

In Qijing Village, Xia Xiaolan was completely unaffected. With plenty of pockets, this year's New Year's Eve is a good one. Although there is no TV, the whole family can eat melon seeds and chat around the stove, and they can keep the New Year's Eve.

Taotao's head twitched little by little, seeing that he couldn't stop dozing off before 12 o'clock in the morning.

Liu Fen pushed him and gave him a bulging red envelope.

"I gave you the lucky money."

The red envelopes given before 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve are called "New Year's Money". New Year's Eve is a blessing. The money is given at the countdown to the New Year. It is the elders wishing the younger generation to be healthy, auspicious, and safe in the new year.

In addition to the gifts given a year ago, when visiting relatives in the first month, relatives received gifts and gave red envelopes to children. This is a red envelope for New Year's greetings.

These days, people don't have much money, and the red envelopes can be filled with 5 yuan or 10 yuan at most, and poorer people will even pack one or two yuan.

This kind of red envelopes are all given to each other. You add a child to me, and I come to your house and return the red envelopes. If someone keeps distributing red envelopes and doesn't collect them, it will be a big bloodletting in the first month.

Liu Fen prepared a red envelope for his nephew, and Li Fengmei also prepared one for Xia Xiaolan.

Xia Xiaolan will be 19 years old in a few months. If she gets married early, her children will run all over the place. How can she be embarrassed to ask for a red envelope?

Li Fengmei forced to give it to her, but Xia Xiaolan couldn't take it. When you squeeze the thickness, it is estimated to be at least 100 yuan - just the same as the New Year money Liu Fen gave Taotao. Xia Xiaolan glanced at her mother helplessly. The legendary red envelope offset method turned out to be true.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Li Fengmei was busy making dumplings, and the whole family went to battle together, kneading the dough, rolling the dough, mixing the stuffing, making the dumplings, and stuffing coins into the dumplings. Xia Xiaolan saw Li Fengmei secretly marking the dumplings stuffed with coins. , she didn't make a sound.

Liu Yong bought firecrackers and set them on fire outside the house at 12:00.

Before 12 o'clock, there will be sporadic firecrackers one after another. The closer to 12 o'clock, the more firecrackers will sound. People who set off fireworks at this time are very rare. Every family has to buy a set of firecrackers.

Liu Yong bought a few hanging firecrackers, spread them out along the road in front of the house, and connected the firecrackers end to end to make them sound longer!

The number of firecrackers set off in the countryside to welcome the New Year also represents whether a family is wealthy or not. In previous years, Liu Yong was also the group of people who meant it. This year, the great unity in the purse was full, and it was considered a turnaround.

When I saw the neighbors were also firing cannons, I shouted in a loud voice:

"Yongzi, your artillery battle is powerful enough, how loud is it?"

"1000 rings, 5 hooks up!"

Heh, he's really rich.

The small firecrackers that were set off last year should be 100 ringers!

Children like this kind of time. Liu Zitao stopped dozing off, watching Liu Yong fire a cannon in the yard. Xia Xiaolan was afraid that his ears would not be able to bear and would not let him get too close, so Liu Zitao jumped and screamed in excitement.

Children are also sensitive to the environment at home.

Last year was also a very important year for Liu Zitao. First of all, he became a primary school student and officially went to school. Not long after, his parents took him to live in Shangdu, the provincial capital, and he also transferred to the primary school in Shangdu. It was rare for the family to eat meat once before, and after finally eating a meal, his parents had to eat it before him.

Now basically there is a meat dish every day, and Liu Zitao is more picky the more he eats, and he can't eat without meat.

Not to mention new clothes and new shoes, the family is in the clothing business, and no one will miss Liu Zitao.

Five or six years old is already the age to remember things. Liu Zitao still remembers last year's New Year. Someone came to the house to ask for an account, but he couldn't pay it back. The person who asked for the account didn't leave. The person who wanted the account sent him away, his mother had a big fight with his father, Liu Zitao was so frightened that he cried, and his mother cried when he hugged him.

At first, his attitude was fierce. When he saw his mother crying, his father did not quarrel.

Touching his head and saying a lot, Liu Zitao doesn't remember. He only knew that the first month of the month was not over, so his father went out to "work" with a bag on his back.

After a few months, I got the money back to pay off the debt, and my mother called the creditors to their homes one by one, and it took several repayments to pay off the debt.

Then his dad bought a new bike and rode home, and then Xiaolan's cousin and second aunt came.

Liu Zitao shouted excitedly, and soon he was sweating.

The sound of firecrackers outside gradually faded. Xia Xiaolan squatted down to check him for sparks from firecrackers. Liu Zitao suddenly leaned into her ear and said, "Sister Xiaolan, I feel so happy!"

Xia Xiaolan chuckled, "You are a big kid, do you know what happiness is?"

Liu Zitao was anxious: "The teacher said that we live in a socialist country. If we have books to read, clothes to wear, and food to eat, we are happy! I am very happy! I still have parents, sister Xiaolan, and two aunts!"

This kid is so likable, Xia Xiaolan's heart softened.

When Liu Yong came back after firing the cannon, he heard it clearly.

He used to be such a jerk. Fortunately, it was not too late to wake up. He grabbed his son on his back, put Liu Zitao's legs on his neck, and rushed into the room:

"Go, eat dumplings!"

After the firecrackers to welcome the new year are finished, it is time to eat dumplings.

Today's dumplings are pure meat filling, and every bite is very satisfying. Xia Xiaolan and Liu Zitao unexpectedly ate the dumplings marked by Li Fengmei. Xia Xiaolan was mentally prepared. Liu Zitao was an honest little boy who almost broke his teeth.

He covered his mouth to cry

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"Don't cry, it's already the first day of the new year, and you can't see crying in the new year."

Xia Xiaolan also coaxed him, "If you eat slowly, you won't break your teeth, and those who eat this dumpling will be happier!"

Liu Yongchou, how can you not break your teeth, eat too fast!

Liu Yong suddenly remembered Zhou Cheng, and he said one, two, three when he ate a herring, and he didn't know how his family was educated. Liu Yong also thought a long way. Before he became a rich generation, he was thinking about how to train Liu Zitao to become a strong second generation rich.

Let go of firecrackers, eat dumplings, New Year's Eve is over. Before Xia Xiaolan went to bed, she found a bulging red envelope under the pillow. You don't have to think about it to know that Liu Fen secretly put it there.

The mother and daughter make money regardless of each other, and the money is used together, but Liu Fen has a compensatory mentality for Xia Xiaolan.

It used to be difficult to get a New Year's red envelope of one or two yuan, but if you make money this year, you will make it up for Xia Xiaolan.

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The Zhou family in Beijing is also celebrating the New Year.

Zhou Cheng's grandparents are still alive, and they are still very strong. They don't usually live with their children, and they don't like to climb stairs when they are old. Senior retired cadres like Zhou Cheng are arranged in one-story houses. The level is up, and there are attendants to take care of them when they retire. The old couple is quite comfortable living by themselves. The children and grandchildren gather together during the Chinese New Year, which is already very happy for the old couple.

Take Old Zhou as an example, how many of his comrades died before they could enjoy the peaceful days, and how many of them left early after waiting for the peaceful days when their health did not allow them to enjoy their happiness?

The old man Zhou was very satisfied with his life.

With good luck and not greed, let him get to where he is today step by step, and handed over his duties safely and steadily, which can be said to be a good start and a good end.

He and his wife have two sons and two daughters, and they are both in good health. They didn't let the white-haired person send the black-haired person. What else is there to be dissatisfied with? Even if some children need to be excellent at work, and some children have average ability, Mr. Zhou is not greedy at all.

Those who came through the artillery fire knew that nothing was important, not to mention that the Zhou family did not fight like black-eyed chickens like other families, there were some small frictions, and they were generally quite united.

On New Year's Eve, the children and grandchildren of the Zhou family gathered together to accompany the two elders to keep the year old.

Only without Zhou Cheng, Grandma Zhou talked about her eldest grandson, and her granddaughter was a little jealous. Zhou Cheng's cousin Zhou Yi suddenly said:

"Grandma, I heard a story from the little sister. I don't know if it's true or not. She said that Chengzi himself is a girl from another place... You, you have a grandson-in-law!"

When Zhou Yi said this, the whole family was as quiet as chickens.

The spoon in Guan Hui's hand almost fell into the bowl, "Zhou Yi, where did you hear that?"