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After Xiaolian arrived home, she had planned to go to the market with her sister-in-law Fengxiu in the afternoon, but under the advice of her sister-in-law, she still decided to go to the "Fool's Market" on the morning of the 30th day of the Waxing Moon.
Seeing that her mother's mental state is very good, and her sister-in-law Fengxiu's attitude is also pleasant, Xiaolian's mood is much more relaxed.
The index of a family's happiness is not measured by how much wealth it has, but by the spiritual outlook of family members. It is said that "poor couples are sad", since the brother Xiaogang picked the beams in the sugar mill in the village, the smile of the sister-in-law Fengxiu has also bloomed a lot, and the mother's life at home is naturally much better.
Speaking of his brother Xiao Gang learning the craft of making candy, it is also thanks to the help of a good friend Guo Uncle guo in Xiaolian's father.
It was the second year after Xiaolian's father died in a car accident, and her sister Xiaolan and brother Xiaogang dropped out of school one after another and went home to help their mother take care of more than a dozen acres of responsible fields in the family. As soon as rural people are idle in winter, they are hiding at home all day and doing nothing, commonly known as "eating dead food" and have no financial resources.
Along the river, since the Qing Dynasty, there has been a traditional pastry craft, which is mainly desserts. The famous "jade belt cake" is said to be named after Qianlong's private visit to Jiangnan Micro Service, after tasting it. Every year on the first day of the waxing moon, sugar craftsmen first boil barley malt or sweet potato into shredded sugar, sauté the fried rice flowers into rice candy, and the peanut kernels are fried to make peanut candy, peanut crisp, and so on, as well as sesame sugar, soybean sugar and so on.
It is no exaggeration to say: sugar silk wraps everything!
During the Spring Festival, relatives and friends visit each other, the picture is auspicious, the cake is indispensable, and its name is "step by step". Therefore, the traditional pastry making craft has lasted for a long time, and what jade belt cake, hemp baking cake, square cake, etc., have also been passed down for a long time.
Xiaolian's father's good friend Uncle Guo is a craftsman who makes all kinds of candy.
He saw that Xiaolian's mother and son had a difficult life, the son Xiaogang was introverted and thin, and the physical work of carpenters and bricklayers learned by rural boys was not suitable for him at all. Therefore, he offered to take Xiao Gang with him, and let him learn the sugar recipe with him every winter.
Fortunately, Xiao Gang is a diligent and studious young man, and he silently records every candy recipe with a pen and heart, and follows Uncle Guo to work in the surrounding food stores for several years.
However, at that time, Xiao Gang was also an apprentice, no salary, just winter idle not at home to eat idle meals, mixed stomach.
But the good times did not last long, Uncle Guo later died of illness, Xiao Gang was not led, originally an introverted person, since then it is like a kite with a broken line.
"Famine years of starvation do not die craftsmen", and later after several villages concentrated, everyone proposed to set up a candy processing factory, Xiao Gang was thick and realistic, and learned to make sugar for several years, naturally stood out and was hired, becoming the ingredient master in the factory.
That is, this year, good things have continued: Xiaolian has gone out to work, her brother Xiaogang has established a foothold in the sugar mill, and her life seems to be developing in a good direction.
The happiest person to count this Spring Festival is Xiaolian's mother.
Seeing that her daughter Xiaolian returned from the city in good spirits, she offered to go to the market with her sister-in-law, and she was sincerely happy. The past few years have been too depressing.
Lying in bed at night, the two women had endless words. Xiaolian asked her mother what she needed, so that she could buy it back with her sister-in-law tomorrow.
The mother gently rubbed Xiaolian's legs and said softly, "The New Year goods at home are almost done, if you really want to buy them, buy something for Tian Tian, I don't need anything." Besides, the days are like drizzle, it is not easy for you to earn money outside, you still have to save some yourself, and when you get married in the future, you can't hope to expect me to hire you for how much dowry, or rely on yourself. ”
At the mention of her daughter's future marriage, the mother began to nag again: "The New Year is one year older, there are good people who can also be given, I am as old as you, I have your sister."
When Xiao Lian heard this, she hurriedly interrupted her mother's words and said, "Mom, you must not deal with this stubble with the fat third sister-in-law, I am still young, I am not in a hurry."
The mother smiled and said, "A family of adopted daughters and a hundred families, there are good ones to pay attention to, you can't follow me for a lifetime."
Xiao Lian smiled and put her mother's feet to her chest and said in a soft voice, "Oh, go to sleep, you don't have to worry about it!"
Perhaps because of the bumpy ride in the car early in the morning, Xiaolian fell asleep sweetly in the sound of her mother's chatter.
Because she said that she Chinese New Year's Eve a market, Xiaolian had to leave the hot bed, get up early in the morning to wash up, and wait for her sister-in-law Fengxiu.
Just when Xiao Gang's sugar mill work was over, just like that, Xiao Lian and her brother and sister-in-law got on a tricycle and rushed to the market, leaving their nephew Tian Tian and her mother and grandchildren at home.
Xiaolian and her brother-in-law got off the tricycle and walked all the way in along the sides of the street, setting up stalls along the way so that pedestrians could hardly walk, and the crowds were crowded, so it was not busy.
Xiaolian's main task today is to buy clothes for her nephew Tian Tian, so she did not stay too much in the middle and went straight to the theme of ___ to go to the children's clothing store.
After walking a few comparisons, I finally took a fancy to a yellow jacket set. Ask the price, it is actually Xiaolian's salary for more than half a month! At that time, sister-in-law Fengxiu pulled Xiaolian and walked outside, saying as she walked: "Don't buy it, don't buy it, it's too expensive, the child grows fast, spend so much money to waste, next year it will be small."
Xiaolian didn't care about this, she was determined to buy, and finally bargained, and finally took 28 yuan.
Xiao Lian's wish finally came true. The smile on sister-in-law Fengxiu's face was even brighter.
Brother-in-law and Xiaolian three people, along the bazaar to buy some fresh vegetables, and bought a few pairs of couplets, brother Xiaogang also specially bought eighteen "open door cannons", ready to celebrate the New Year in a lively atmosphere.
Feng Xiu and Xiao Gang and his wife bought a jacket in a clothing store, and also bought a pair of deep snow boots for Xiao Lian's mother in a shoe store, when Xiao Lian was busy paying, her sister-in-law Feng Xiu pulled hard and did not let it, saying that this money could not be given by Xiao Lian, and the mother-in-law was busy all year round, and it was supposed to buy her a pair of shoes.
Xiao Lian had no choice but to insist on it any longer, but her heart was warm, and she thought: People change with the environment, and her sister-in-law Fengxiu is becoming more and more virtuous and sensible.
Home and talent are all the best.
Back at home, Xiaolian couldn't wait for her nephew to try on new clothes, looking at the little nephew's clothes, the appearance of the spirit, the family was smiling, especially the sister-in-law Fengxiu.
Xiao lian's hometown is Chinese New Year's Eve what to eat at noon, the evening is officially counted as the New Year, men and women, young and old Chinese New Year's Eve the night to keep the age is until twelve o'clock. On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, the door is "opened" to welcome the arrival of the New Year, and then the villagers visit the door and exchange greetings.
There are also certain rules for visiting friends in the countryside, called: the first relative, the second uncle of the first year, the third and fourth brothers-in-law of the first year.
Therefore, basically the first day of the New Year is in their own home, and then the second day of the first year is the uncle's family, there is a saying that "the heavenly thunder gong, the underground mother-in-law", which shows the weight of the uncle in the nephew's mind.
It is said that on the second day of the first year, sister-in-law Fengxiu and her brother-in-law made an appointment to go to her mother's uncle to pay respects to the New Year, leaving Xiaolian and her mother at home.
After eating lunch, Xiaolian said to her mother, "I want to lie down for a while, and I can't open my eyes when I'm sleepy."
The mother and daughter were chatting, and in the house they heard the laughter of the fat third sister-in-law, and then heard her shouting outside the door: "Old aunt, is Xiaolian at home?" There are a few small children in my family, playing cards without a person, let Xiaolian come to play with them for a while. ”
Xiao Lian listened and hurriedly signaled her mother to refuse, but at this time, the fat third sister-in-law had already entered the house.
Xiao Lian couldn't dodge, so she had to laugh and say, "I can't play cards, and I just want to go to sleep."
Who knew that the fat third sister-in-law said vigorously: "Now that the night is so long, how many people can't sleep?" Besides, where is the third day of the Chinese New Year before the noon to sleep, walk around, just your brother-in-law and Tian Tian are not at home, your mother can not rest easily, you two go to my house together to nag, nesting at home is not interesting. ”
Xiao Lian looked at her mother helplessly, who knew that her mother smiled and said to Xiao Lian: "Let's go, there are little friends and friends playing together, maybe they won't be sleepy." Besides, three days have not passed, and I am not happy to sleep during the day. ”
Xiao Lian said, "What about this rule?" Why didn't I know before? ”
The fat third sister-in-law dragged and pulled, and involuntarily invited Xiaolian's mother and daughter to her house.
As soon as I entered the gate, I saw smoke in the hall, a group of children playing games in the courtyard, and a table of men drinking. Xiao Lian frowned, and the fat third sister-in-law hurriedly let Xiao Lian's mother and daughter into the inner room, and shouted loudly: "Gui Fang, Er Liang, a few of you, didn't you just say that you were looking for someone to play cards?" I've found my aunt Xiaolian for you, so hurry up. ”
He said and pulled the small square table apart and poured a box of mahjong on the table. He hurriedly went to bring a pot of hot water and poured boiling water for everyone, so he dragged Xiaolian's mother to the outhouse.
Then three young people came in, two women and one man, of whom Guifang Xiaolian knew, who was the niece of the husband of the fat third sister-in-law. Gui Fang smiled and greeted Xiao Lian, and the four of them sat at the table and played mahjong, talking.
It turned out that Gui Fang had also gone out to work, and it was only after the twenty-fourth of the month that she returned from Ningbo.
When it comes to the experience of going out to work, Xiaolian and Guifang immediately have a common language, and after asking each other about the work situation and salary treatment, Xiaolian feels that the salary is still high in coastal cities. But think about how hard it is to have a job, and you can't see the mountain high.
In fact, Xiaolian can't play mahjong at all, talking to Guifang, while playing cards, actually sent out one of his own cards that he needed, so that the boy named Erliang Hu card! The girl named Xiaofang who was sitting next to her asked Xiaolian urgently: "It seems that you really can't play cards?" At first I thought you were modest. ”
Xiao Lian said embarrassedly, "I really can't, it was the third sister-in-law who forced me to come."
The fat third sister-in-law heard the laughter inside, and Xiaolian's mother entered the house, asked about the situation, laughed, and then personally sat down next to Xiaolian, taught her hand in hand, and said to Xiaolian seriously: "Don't underestimate this playing mahjong, these must be learned, otherwise no one will take you to play in the village every New Year's Festival in the future, this is also a craft."
In fact, Xiaolian did not know the real intention of the fat third sister-in-law at this moment, and it was false for her to play cards, so that her distant nephew Erliang saw that Xiaolian was real.
In the vast sea of people, inadvertently, the people you want to see and the people you don't want to see are on the way to come, so that you can't dodge.
This is fate.
(To be continued)