Cook dumplings, stir-fry vegetables, serve dishes, stew chicken, duck, fish, ribs, steam vegetables, and put it on the table.
After the dumplings were taken out of the pot, Yuan Manniang brought them to the gods and ancestors. They deliberately gave up the main seats and put the bowls and chopsticks on them.
La Yue held a vinegar jar with garlic and poured Laba vinegar into the bowls one by one. "Brother, do you want some garlic?"
Lu Xu said while fishing for dumplings: "I want two."
In the twelfth lunar month, he took the prepared dry chopsticks and fished out two pieces of green Laba garlic, and then put two drops of sesame oil into his vinegar dish.
December: "Brother Zhou, do you want it?"
Lu Zhou: "No, put a few more for dad, he loves it most."
December: "Yeah."
As she mixed the garlic, she murmured to the empty seat of honor, "Daddy, eat more, and tomorrow we, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters will go visit you!"
Lu Rui sat at the end holding his small wooden bowl and small spoon, swaying his little feet and staring at his sister. He was also jealous!
Lu Xu fished out bowlfuls of dumplings, and Lu Zhou put them on the table one by one. Maybe he was involved in making dumplings and started eating. Lu Rui's dumplings tasted better than meat, and he continued to eat them one after another.
When it came to the vigil, Lu Rui couldn't stand it any longer. Even though Lu Xu had been telling fairy tales, and he heard that Lu Yue wanted to sit on his lap and listen closely, Yuan Maniang and Lu Zhou were also concentrating, and Lu Rui was still nestled in Yuan Maniang's arms. Dozed off.
As soon as Lu Xu talked about the ugly duckling turning into a swan, he heard a small snoring, and Lu Rui fell asleep at some point.
Lu Zhou and La Yue ran to the bedroom, took out Lu Rui's small mattress, quilt and pillows, and spread them on the table. Yuan Manniang put Lu Rui into bed, and the family continued to stay up late listening to stories by the stove.
After Lu Xu finished telling "The Little Mermaid", seeing the tears in her eyes, she coaxed her, "This story tells us that men are stupid donkeys, and smart little girls must not be deceived. Do you understand?"
La Yue's eyes were still moist, and she retorted with a milky voice, "Brother is not an idiot."
Lu Xu was happy to be refuted, "Well, not my brother. My brother is the smartest."
La Yue nodded and added: "Neither is Brother Zhou, nor is Brother Junqi, nor is Brother Xiaohui, nor is Brother Xiaoxuan, nor is Brother Xiaowen."
She counted the men she knew on her fingers, from her grandfather to her younger brother, as well as the children of relatives and neighbors, and finally said with a smile: "Wen Zhen is!"
Yuan Manniang smiled, "Just bully Wen Zhen for her good temper."
Staying up until dawn, the twelfth lunar month also fell asleep. Lu Zhou dozed off leaning on Lu Xu, and Lu Xu had a heartache again and again.
Hearing the commotion in the village, Lu Xu told Lu Zhou to wake up and quickly cook dumplings to eat. After eating, they would set off to the elders' homes in the village to pay New Year's greetings. After the New Year's greetings, they would go to worship their ancestors with their uncles and brothers in the clan. After the ancestor worship, , and then take tributes to worship at the graves of relatives in each family.
All of this needs to be done in the morning, so the whole morning is quite busy.
Lu Xu cooked the dumplings made last night and asked Lu Zhou to wake up Lu Yue and Lu Rui. They had lost their appetite in the morning and were still not hungry even after sleeping for a long time. Lu Xu gave everyone some dumpling soup, which was not warm. It is easy to catch a cold if you don’t go out.
After dinner, Lu Rui was still so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. Yuan Manniang didn't even notice that Yuan Manniang was changing him into new clothes. He closed his eyes and stretched his arms and legs, letting others play with them without opening his eyes anyway.
In the twelfth lunar month, she put on her new little flower coat, finally woke up, combed her hair with a comb, and waited for Yuan Manniang to finish her troubles and Lu Rui tied her pigtails.
Lu Zhou was wearing a scholar's robe today. With that robe, he looked like a handsome young man.
Lu Xu rubbed his little face and put some antifreeze ointment on his face, "Have you grown taller?"
Yuan Manniang also said: "I've grown taller. When I do it in autumn, it can still cover my feet. It's just right to wear it now."
Lu Zhou pursed his lips and closed his eyes, smiling lightly under the palm of his brother's hand. He was taller than Lu Wen!
After cleaning up the little ones, Yuan Maniang and Lu Xu also went to change into new clothes, blew out the oil lamps and candles at home, locked the door and set off with the little ones.
Lu Xu hugged Lu Rui, Yuan Manniang held hands with La Yue and Lu Zhou, Lu Zhou held a lantern, and the family walked slowly to the village on the ice with their new cotton shoes.
As soon as I went out, I met the Yan Junqi family who were also going to pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa Lu and Li Zheng's family.
They are from outside the country and have few relatives. They visit the homes of their acquaintances every year.
"The twelfth lunar month!" Wen Zhen let go of Yan Junqi and ran towards the twelfth lunar month with small steps.
Last night, La Yue disliked Wen Zhen for being stupid, so she took Wen Zhen's hand and slowly moved towards the village early in the morning.
Yan Junqi held a lantern and stood next to Lu Xu. Wen Zhen and Lu Yue in the front row were swaying like little penguins.
Lu Xu found it hilarious.
He bought five lanterns from the town, one for his family, one for his second uncle, one for third uncle, and one for fourth uncle's family, and one for Yan Junqi. At this moment, the two lanterns came together, and the lighting was just right.
There are more and more people on the road, and they are going from house to house to pay New Year greetings. Many people hunker down and wish they could hide their heads in their cotton-padded jackets. Take a look, they are all knee-deep in dirt. Children are more excited than adults. No matter where you go at this time, you can They get some snacks, and if the conditions are good, they will also be given lucky money.
Children especially like to go to Li Zheng's house. Li Zheng distributes money one by one during the New Year. Even children with foreign surnames will give one or two copper coins to their children.
Before they reached their fourth uncle's house, several waves of children had already asked Lu Zhou and La Yue if they would go to Li Zheng's house to pay New Year's greetings.
Lu Xu was very happy about the good popularity of his younger siblings. It was great to have friends in childhood: "You go first, we will go soon."
A little girl asked: "Twelve months, can I go to your house to play later?"
December: "Okay, but I have to come in the afternoon. I want to have dinner at grandpa's house at noon."
The little girl was led away by her mother. As she walked, she waved to December: "Okay! Let's play house!"
Wen Zhen asked: "Can I go too?"
Lu Yue: "Yes, but you have to treat me like a little kid who comes to buy candy."
Wen Zhen said without hesitation: "Okay!"
The most common content of their play house is to marry a wife and go to the grocery store. The grocery store is very realistic. The products are all facing Grandpa Lu’s shop. They sell whatever the Lu family sells, but they use leaves and stones. When money, mud, snow, wood, stones, etc. are used as commodities, it often happens that a stone is an egg, sugar, and silver.
At this time, older children with good memories are needed to take charge of the overall situation. In the past, Lu Wen loved to do this. Later, when he was busy with real business, it was the turn of a few reliable little girls. And a little carrot like Wen Zhen could only do this. I play wherever I can, and often take on roles that no one wants to play, either as the child who always cries in the story about marrying a wife, or as a small customer in a grocery store, but so far I have not been able to be promoted to a groom or the owner of a grocery store. .
The third uncle and the third aunt also arrived with Lu Hui, Lu Wen and the others. Xiaoyu and Xiaoman also wore new clothes and new shoes today. The cloth was brought back by the third aunt from the county. The three families made flower cotton-padded jackets for their little girls respectively. When the twelfth lunar month arrived, the three Little sister, look at me, I will touch you, hold hands and jump around.
Xiaoxia and Hanlu are older children. They wear new cotton-padded clothes in the color of madder. They choose the materials and patterns at the cloth store with their own wages. They also secretly went to the county's clothing store to watch how the masters in the store made the clothes. Yes, I imitated the store, and the cuffs and collar were reversed.
Han Lu also secretly bought rouge and took Xiaoxia to apply rouge in her room.
A girl of fourteen or fifteen years old is in her prime, so she looks cute and beautiful no matter what she wears.
Lu Xu was generous with his praise and said that it was a pity that he couldn't draw, otherwise he would have painted the two of them. The two little girls were being laughed at by their brothers for applying makeup and powder, and were feeling embarrassed. When Lu Xu came, he was so complimented by them They both praised happily.
Han Lu didn't want to think about whether to wash off the rouge, and raised her chest and raised her head to attack Lu Xuan: "Listen for yourself, how the elder brother talks, how you talk, you have such a broken mouth, and you still want to do business!"
Lu Xuan wanted to break up with her, but Lu Xu dragged him to pay New Year's greetings to his grandfather.
He is such a strong and unfortunate brother, what right does a straight man have to attack his sister who has just started to love beauty? No eyesight!
Lu Xuan: "Look at her face, it looks like a monkey's butt..."
Lu Xu: "It's not that exaggerated. A rosy face looks healthier! You think the color is not good, so why don't you make money to buy her a good one? You're the only one who talks too much!"
As he walked, he murmured to Lu Xuan what a complete makeup process should be like. Lu Xuan became more and more shocked as he listened.
"Pearls? Honey? Apply on face?"
Lu Xu: "What do you think, at the very least, you have to use some cucumber slices. People use this pink or that pink for their makeup, dozens or dozens of kinds. You haven't even bought an eyebrow pencil for Han Lu, and you dare to dislike other people's rouge. It doesn’t look good, and it doesn’t cost the family money.”
Lu Xu looked at the silk flower on Xiao Xia's head and continued to stab, "Xiao Wen also knows how to buy Xiao Xia a hair flower."
Lu Xuan felt aggrieved when his eldest brother looked at him with a look like "You're not as good as Lu Wen". The main reason was that their Han Lu had been like a wild boy since he was a child. He could climb trees faster than him when he was a child. Would he like this?
He couldn't help but look at it, and then looked at it again, and saw the three little ones gathered around Han Lu to apply rouge. Han Lu applied it to them one by one, with bright eyes. Suddenly he realized that his sister had become a big girl at some point. .
In the twelfth lunar month, I was the first to paint it, and I happily ran to show it to my mother, brother, and grandparents.
Grandpa Lu also said: "I think it looks good."
Grandma Lu said to me: "That's right, the color of this rouge is so beautiful. Our girl is fair and looks good even if she wears rouge."
Lu Xuan's aesthetic status was personally denied by his grandparents, and Han Lu became even more elated.
Seeing Lu Xuan looking at her, Han Lu subconsciously shrank her neck, "What are you looking at?"
Lu Xuan was too lazy to talk to her.
When it came to the New Year greetings, the two generations of children and grandchildren, except for Lu Rui's wrong posture, all gave New Year greetings to Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu, and then the grandchildren gave New Year greetings to Yuan Maniang, second uncle, third uncle, third aunt, fourth uncle and fourth aunt.
The family has made money this year, and the New Year's money has been given more than usual. After a round of worship, my pocket is bulging, and my second uncle especially gave me a lot.
After the parents finished giving, Han Lu was still thinking about Lu Xu's words about giving her red envelopes. She looked at Lu Xu from time to time and looked at his bulging clothes - the abnormal bulge in his arms must contain money!
Sure enough, Lu Xu took it out from his arms and found exactly the same small purse made of coarse cloth, all bulging.
Lu Xu took it out, and his younger brothers and sisters handed it out one by one, "Here, yours, Happy New Year, I wish my brother a big fortune in the New Year!"
The first person to get the Lu Fu took it in a daze and repeated: "I wish my brother a big fortune in the New Year."
Lu Xu: "I also wish you a happy new year."
Xiaoyu didn't need Lu Xu's guidance, Xiaoyu said softly: "Brother will make a fortune in the New Year, and business will be prosperous."
Lu Xu: "How good!"
Everyone below knows it, and everyone is waiting to receive the red envelope.
Lu Xuan took it, felt the small bag full of copper coins, and handed it to Han Lu without opening it, "Here."
Han Lu's mouth could have swallowed the egg, but she didn't pick it up cautiously, "Give it to me? Are your brains burned out?"
Lu Xuan threw his purse to her: "Take it and buy some nice rouge."
Han Lu caught it, opened it, and saw a bag full of copper coins. She hummed and didn't say anything to Lu Xuan. Then, she opened her red envelope.
Han Lu stood motionless and blinked, clenched her purse tightly, loosened it again and looked again.
It's silver.
What a silver!
White money!
The brother and sister looked at each other, both shocked.
Lu Wen and Xiao Xia were heard shouting: "It's silver!"
The whole family gathered together to watch the fun.
Lu Xu: "I said I would share the dividends with you! Come on, Xiaoxia, this is the third aunt's share, and it will be given to you too."
The third aunt quickly said no.
Over there, Han Lu and Lu Xuan looked at each other in disbelief.
Immediately, Han Lu suddenly stuffed back the bag of copper coins that Lu Xuan gave her, and said deeply: "You don't have to give it to me. You should buy some medicine to replenish your eyes and brain!"
Lu Xuan: "..."
For the first time in my life, my sister saved the day, it was subtle...
The author has something to say:
The NO.1 member of the whole family: the children in the twelfth lunar month!
Lu Xuan and Han Lu, brothers and sisters who hate each other~
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