Chapter 687 years ago
As the Spring Festival approaches, the atmosphere of the New Year naturally becomes heavier. When Hang Xiangdong and Li Yumei and his wife arrive, Wen Xu's family gathers all the people who celebrate the New Year.
Wen Xu opened his eyes in the morning and thought he was the first to be the first, but who knew that when he went downstairs, he saw that his aunt Li Yumei had already gotten up, and was holding a feather duster and trying it out.
"Aunt, you don't have to get up so early. Why didn't you sleep for a while just arrived yesterday afternoon?" Wen Xu said to Li Yumei, who was busy while reaching out to do chest expansion exercises.
"I am old and can't sleep well. This is already good. Every time I come to Wenjia Village, I can sleep for seven or eight hours. I slept even less when I was in the capital. It's okay," Li Yumei said with a smile.
Wen Xu smiled and asked again, "Where is my uncle, have you gotten up too?"
"He, he got up earlier than me. He got up before dawn. He sat on the edge of the bed waiting for the dawn and couldn't wait to go out and go crazy, saying that he was going to sing an opera with his old friends."
Speaking of this, Li Yumei reached out to her mouth and said mysteriously: "Your uncle went to the opera school because he learned opera and asked someone else's teacher to teach him. Now he felt that it was almost done and could surpass others. He was waiting to show off to his old friends."
Wen Xu couldn't help but feel happy after hearing this, feeling like an old man was an old child.
"Then I'll go out for exercise." After saying that, Wen Xu walked to Xiaoyao's door and reached out to knock on the door: "Xiaoyao, Xiaoyao!"
"What are you doing with your child?"
When Li Yumei saw Wen Xu knocking on Xiao Yao's door, she immediately stopped her and said, "For her, this time is the time for her children to sleep in. If she doesn't sleep until 10 o'clock in the morning, can it be called winter vacation?"
Before Wen Xu answered, Xiao Yao inside had already opened the door and said while holding his pants: "Grandma Li, I practice martial arts with my uncle every day. Look at my achievements!"
After saying that, he raised his little arm and signaled Li Yumei to pinch the muscles on his arm.
Li Yumei pinched her head and nodded and praised Xiao Yao, "It's really good, the results are quite good!"
"That's not in vain for so many days. Grandma, let's go," Xiao Yao said proudly.
When Li Yumei saw that one big and one small arrived at the gate of the yard, she immediately wanted to come to her place and had something to ask, so she rushed up and yelled at Wen Xu's back twice.
Seeing Wen Xu stopping, Li Yumei asked, "Didn't you say that you should kill pigs today? How do you plan to kill them?"
Wen Xu was suddenly confused by his aunt's question: "What does it mean to kill?" Wen Xu felt that killing pigs was just a white knife and a red knife came out. How could he kill anything? Electric hammer hammering the head is not the style of our Chinese people.
"I asked when to kill, where to kill, and whether to kill in our yard." Li Yumei looked at Wen Xu with a silly look, so she opened her mouth and explained in detail.
Wen Xu immediately understood and quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, kill it outside, don't you have to be busy. The village has hired a few pig-killers. They are professionals, so we will be responsible for picking up the meat!"
"When is it now? It's twenty-eight today. Our rounds have not yet fried, and the cakes have not been steamed. There are so many things happening," said Li Yumei.
When he came, Li Yumei had already seen other people's busy houses, such as steaming buns, steaming glutinous rice cakes, making rock candy, fried dumplings, etc. When he arrived at Wenxu's house, he had nothing except a few fools and a few small animals. Every day, he still ate and drank like a person who was fine.
As an old-fashioned person, Li Yumei suddenly found a sense of existence and couldn't help but feel proud, thinking that these young people really can't do without an old man!
Since she has a sense of existence, Li Yumei naturally wants to catch up with the progress of the villagers, so she is particularly concerned about slaughtering pigs. During the Chinese New Year, there is no meat to fight the main force, so what can be done well?
"It's almost done. I heard from Brother Wu that people will come over at around 8 o'clock! They will kill quickly and it will be over in half an hour at most, unlike ours," Wen Xu said.
When Li Yumei heard that she felt that she was acceptable at around eight o'clock, she waved to Wen Xu: "Then go!"
Wen Xu took Xiao Yao to find the old Taoist to exercise when he heard this.
After getting used to it, I felt that more than an hour was fine. When I was about to finish, Wen Xu stopped the old Taoist who was about to leave.
"Old Master, come to my house for the New Year. Now there are no one in the ancestral hall. If you feel lonely, just move to my house," said Wen Xu.
The old Taoist looked at Wen Xu, and the warmth flashed in his eyes. The next second he looked very disdainful: "It's only when there are fewer people. They all left. I'm so happy that I occupy such a large yard. Okay, don't persuade me. I don't have time to go to your place for the New Year. I'll have a meal at Xinjianjia on the first day of the New Year. On the second day of the New Year, I'll go to see a few old friends. It's about ten days away. Don't be lazy at home!"
After saying that, the old Taoist didn't wait for Wen Xu to say anything, leaving leisurely without waiting for Wen Xu to wave his hands behind his back.
Wen Xu took Xiao Yao home. After taking a shower, the two of them started to help Li Yumei and make breakfast. When the breakfast was ready, Xiao Yao had a new task to call his uncle who had forgotten to eat.
When I was halfway through the meal, Wen Shiqing entered the yard.
"Shixu, Shixu, the pig slayer will arrive soon. Did your pig come here?"
What a good guy, Wen Shiqing yelled, which scared the snow sculpture almost fell off the back of the chair where he was standing.
"It's not that it's over eight o'clock, there's still a quarter of an hour to eight o'clock now." Wen Xu stood up with a bowl and wanted to go out to talk to Wen Shiqing. Who knew that when he stood up, he had already entered the house, so quickly that Wen Xu felt that it was not his cousin, but the Flash who was talking to him.
"Anyway, people are coming soon. They said they were on the road for up to ten minutes. I have notified several of them here to start boiling water. They are almost waiting for your pigs," said Wen Shiqing.
During the Chinese New Year, everyone is quite generous. They are not willing to eat them, and they are starting to pick up all the things they want to use. The first portion is the mouth. During the Chinese New Year, pigs, sheep, cattle, and pigs and sheep are the first choice. As for the Niu Wenxu's home, it is very white, which is not for people to eat. So in addition to the cow, Wenxu's domestic pigs and sheep were welcomed by the entire village. So this time, the village concentrated on slaughtering pigs, so naturally they chose Wenxu's pigs.
Originally, Wen Xu said that he would let Xudong send it directly, but the group of people said nothing and said that there would be no New Year atmosphere. It was still the village where the pigs were slaughtered in their hearts and energy, so this happened. If Wen Xu thought, he would send the pigs and pull the pork back directly, there would be no such troubles.
"What a big deal, wait for me to call and let Qin Zhuangping come over." Wen Xu put down the bowl and turned around and started looking for his cell phone.
Wen Shiqing smiled and said, "You capitalist, you are almost the Chinese New Year but you are still not letting go?"
"I let it go. What can I do if this kid is too honest? And it's okay for him to go home. Old Qin now goes to drag the sledge every day as soon as it dawns. He earns hundreds of dollars a day. Now he's almost forgotten his son's money." Wen Xu said with a smile.
Lao Qin has finally made it right these days, and the sledge business is pretty good. For Lao Qin, I guess he has never made money as easy as these days. In the old man's words, money is not made, but flows into his pocket.
"The sledge business is so prosperous now. I heard that there are people in the town who are not in the New Year. Except for the children who are breastfeeding, they all go to sledge. The family has an income of more than 2,000 yuan a day. I want to buy a horse to pull sledge." Wen Shiqing also heard that sledge money is easy to make, so he said with a smile.
"At most, I will not make it so profitable by next year." Wen Xu thought for a while and then came to a conclusion for the sledge industry.
This thing has no technical content at all. Today's crazy business rarely lasts for a year. Countless people will immediately squeeze in and destroy the industry. Then they need to plan and rectify it. At that time, tourists may complain about being slaughtered and forced to buy and sell. Many domestic attractions have developed in this way. Although Wen Xu does not want Changping to follow this old path, as an ordinary person, he has no say in this matter.
I can only hope that everything else has nothing to do with warmth.
Wen Shiqing smiled and said, "Don't worry about him, you can get the pig first."
Wen Xu called up directly, said a few words to Qin Zhuangping, then put down the phone: "Okay, I'll be here in ten minutes."
"Okay, then you go to have a meal," Wen Shiqing said with a smile. After saying that, he smiled at the person at the table and nodded, saying hello, then turned around and left.
Wen Xu quickly picked up the bowl, hurriedly finished the meal, and walked out the door.
When Li Yumei heard that she had eaten the food when she killed pigs, she turned around and went out to watch the pigs with Wen Xu.
After Li Yumei went out, a group of people immediately finished the rice in their hands, put down the bowls in a flash, and walked out to stand at the door of the yard waiting to see the pigs. Not only the children, but also the Big Flower and Erhua, and the White Swift family, all stood at the door with their heads stretched out, and immediately blocked the door tightly with countless big and small foreheads.
In a short while, Qin Zhuangping drove five or six pigs over.
Wen Xu looked not only Qin Zhuangping, but also a girl in her twenties. She looked average and was not too beautiful, but she was definitely not ugly. Her figure was not very good from the perspective of a city man, and she was a bit fat. But in the countryside, such a girl looked like a girl. She could work and also looked good for her childishness.
"Brother Xu!" Qin Zhuangping brought the pig over and walked to Wen Xu. Before he could say anything, he felt embarrassed for a moment, and it seemed that he was still a teenager and was still shy with his girlfriend.
"I just know how to smile foolishly, and I won't introduce it." Wen Xu looked at the girl next to him and preached to Qin Zhuangping with a smile.
After hearing Wen Xu's words, even the girl's face began to turn red.
When he saw this expression, Wen Xu said in his heart: "It's really a pair!"
Chapter completed!