After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

The next step is to make arrangements for the delicacies eaten during the New Year’s Eve.

Old man Jiang and his wife ground beans to make tofu at home, and served old soy milk with or without stew for each child to taste.

Chunniang steamed buns, steamed buns and rice cakes for the festival with her sister-in-law.

Some steamed buns are made in the shape of cows, sheep, pigs and rabbits. The eyes are dotted with red beans, and the white dough is painted with red flowers with hematoxylin water, which is very beautiful.

In another large pot was a pot full of sausages, pork trotters and a pig's head.

There is also a pot of braised chicken with soybeans that has been prepared, and the aroma can be smelled from afar.

At this time, the happiest thing is the children, because they don't need to write, read and do work, and they can get lucky money.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chunniang and Jiang Sanlang got up before dawn and gave the sleepy children two slices of Yunpian Cake each, symbolizing a happy new year.

After urging them to finish eating the cakes, the two went to the kitchen to cook underwater dumplings and glutinous rice balls, implying a smooth and happy reunion in the new year.

Yingbao knew that she couldn't stay in bed at this time, so she got up quickly, put on the new clothes and pants that Aniang put on the bedside last night, put on the beautiful tiger-toed shoes, and thought about it.Put on the tiger hat again.

The new cotton-padded jacket has yellow flowers on a red background, the five blessings are embroidered on the skirt and back, and the neckline is trimmed with a circle of white rabbit tail hair, which is smooth and beautiful.

With green pants and a tiger hat on the head, you can draw dolls throughout the year.

After they were dressed, Yingbao went to drag Xiaojie and Xiaowu up again, put on clothes, shoes and tiger hats for them, and dragged them to wash up.

"Come and eat dumplings!" Chunniang brought out a bowl of dumplings from the kitchen, put them on the big table in the main room, and brought some bowls of glutinous rice balls.

There are only four in each bowl, implying that everything goes well.

The whole family sat around a large table and ate glutinous rice balls and dumplings. After eating, Chunniang gave Yingbao two small silver curries, each weighing about one or two, and gave one to each of the twin sons.

Yingbao and her two younger brothers kowtowed to their parents for New Year greetings.

The two twins were very happy when they got the silver cup, and they rushed out to show off to Brother Huzi.

Chun Niang grabbed the two of them, "Give the New Year's money to Mother to keep it for you, and if you go outside, you can't find it if you lose it."

Xiao Wu immediately refused: "No! It won't fall."

Xiaojie echoed: "It won't fall! Let's put it in our pockets."

"What if it falls?" These two boys are crazy, how can they put things in DouDou.

"Mother, can I pack a few candies for you?"

"Not good!" The two boys struggled and finally escaped from A Niang's clutches.

Seeing his wife's annoyance, Jiang Sanlang smiled and said, "Let them go." It's only two taels of silver, so if you lose it, go find it.

Then the family of five went to Jiang Dalang's house to pay New Year's greetings, and Yingbao and his younger brother received another wave of lucky money.

Xiao Wu stuffed his New Year's money to his sister and asked her to keep it for him.

Seeing this, Xiaojie also handed over all the New Year's money to his sister, and even took a sneaky look at A Niang to prevent A Niang from robbing her.

Next, several male dolls took the balls bought by Ying Bao, and divided into two teams to fight and kick each other, having so much fun that they didn't even care about food.

The next day, Chunniang and her husband returned to their natal home with their three children to celebrate the New Year.

Xujia Village is neither far nor close to Dongchen Village, only seven or eight miles away.

The eldest nephew Jiang Cheng first drove the third uncle's family to the place, and then rushed back to take his parents and younger siblings to his uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Xu Chunniang has an older brother and a younger sister. Her father is long gone. After the younger sister got married, the widowed mother Xu Laoniang lived with her only son Xu Da.

Mrs. Xu stood at the door looking forward to it early, and when she saw the eldest daughter's mule cart arrive at the entrance of the village, she trotted all the way to greet her.

"Oh, my grandson." Mrs. Xu hugged Xiaojie and Xiaowu, overjoyed.

Ying Bao called out from the side: "Grandma."

"Hey!" Mrs. Xu put down her two grandchildren again, and picked up her granddaughter: "My baby has grown so big."

Ying Bao put her arms around her grandma's neck, said with a smile, "Bao'er is already four years old."

"Yes, yes, Baoer is four years old in a blink of an eye." Mrs. Xu went home with Yingbao in her arms.

The two grandchildren of Douding behind kept shouting: "Grandma, please let my sister down, we have to kowtow to grandma to celebrate the New Year."

"Okay." Mrs. Xu put Yingbao down, and led the three children into the house.

Xu Chunniang and her husband also came in with large baskets and small bags, and distributed gifts to brothers, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces.

"Mother, I wove this piece of cloth out of cotton, but it's soft and hasn't been colored, so you can use it to make a shirt."

"There is also this ramie material, the color is beautiful, you can make your own dress." It's not that Chun Niang doesn't make it for her mother, but Xu Lao Niang likes to do it herself, saying that it is suitable and comfortable to wear.

Mrs. Xu touched the material happily, "Chun Niang, what are you doing with all these materials? I am buried up to my neck, so I don't need these new clothes and materials."

"Don't say that, you can live to 99, why don't you wear new clothes and new materials." Chun Niang took out another five taels of silver and a consistent copper coin and stuffed them to the old woman, "This is your son-in-law's tribute to you." body."

When Mrs. Xu saw a silver ingot, her eyes widened and she quickly tried to decline: "Oh, why are you giving me so much money? I'm not going anywhere, and I don't need to spend money."

"Put it away quickly." Chun Niang forced it to the old lady, "You are an elder, how can you not have a penny in your hand? Later on, the children in the family have to give New Year's money, and the big cow's daughter-in-law is about to enter the door. You can't justify it if you don't give some greetings. "

Daniel is Xu Da's eldest son. He is 16 years old and will get married in a few months.

Seeing that Mrs. Xu could not refuse, she accepted the silver and copper coins.

After her husband left, she lived with her eldest son, and she really didn't have much money left.

Even when the two daughters occasionally gave some private houses during the Chinese New Year, she also subsidized them for the children.

At this time, Mrs. Xu walked into the room, and Chun Niang quickly picked up two pieces of cloth and handed them over: "Sister-in-law, these are the clothes I bought for you and elder brother."

Mrs. Xu quickly took it over, and said with a smile, "Hey, Chunniang is costing you again."

"Where is it, you take care of my mother at home, I haven't thanked you yet." Chun Niang took out four packs of candy snacks and put them on the table, as well as hats, hair flowers and combs for nephews and nieces.

Nowadays, men also wear flowers, and they are still the very gorgeous silk flowers. Chunniang bought some of them and distributed them to nephews and nieces.

Pulling over Yingbao and the two children again, "This is your eldest aunt, hurry up and send your New Year greetings to your eldest aunt."

Ying Bao and her two younger brothers said loudly: "Happy New Year, Auntie, everything goes well!"

"It's all good." Mrs. Xu took out the ten Chinese New Year's money she had prepared from her pocket, and distributed three dolls.

Yingbao and her younger brother took it over, and kowtowed to her aunt as kindly as possible.

Sister-in-law Xu hugged the clothes and said with a smile: "Second sister will come back soon, eldest sister, you can spend more time with your mother, and I will cook."

"Okay, thank you sister-in-law." Chunniang stood up and sent sister-in-law out.

At this time, three children swarmed in from the outside, all belonging to the eldest brother's family. They were a 16-year-old nephew, a 12-year-old niece, and an eight-year-old nephew.

"New Year's greetings to the eldest aunt!" The three children plopped to their knees and kowtowed to Chun Niang.

Chun Niang smiled and gave each of them ten Wen New Year's money, and distributed the hair combs she bought to them.

"Thank you, great aunt!" The three children thanked them, took the money and ran out happily.

Suddenly someone outside laughed and said: "Brother-in-law is here so early, where is Eldest Sister? Why didn't you see her?"

Then the door curtain was lifted, and Xu Qiuniang walked in.

"Yo! What is eldest sister doing hiding in the house? Why don't you help sister-in-law with cooking."