take a wife to support the family

Chapter 416

In rural areas, the Chinese New Year is the busiest time of the year. Migrant workers and business people rush back to open ancestral halls to worship their ancestors. Set up a table of meals in your own home, and invite relatives and friends to get together.

The dolls ran around in the street, carrying a small bamboo tube with a piece of half-burned charcoal in it, and then stalked to get a few firecrackers from the adults, and went to light it with their playmates.

Some boys were very courageous, seeing that the fuse had to burn to the end before throwing it out, and the firecracker exploded in mid-air, scaring passers-by, and the dolls laughed and ran away to avoid being caught and taught a lesson.

In the past few months since Hezhen came to the town, he has already established his prestige. Not only the children of the same age are headed by him, but even older ones, they also listen to his orders when playing war games, and make him a general.

You must know that the leader of the dolls in the town was originally Xing'er, and Xing'er has grown up gradually in the past few years, and she is no longer playful like she was when she was a child, and she seldom hangs out with boys.

But seeing that Hezhen is so powerful, Xinger and Yi'an gathered their former followers and called for a declaration of war with Hezhen. Soldiers and horses, the family fights and plays all day long.

Hezhen has really learned how to deploy troops. The emperor and the crown prince sometimes postponed the war, so Hezhen watched from the sidelines. Over the years, even a piece of wood should learn something. What's more, Hezhen follows his father. He is very tall, usually low-key and not obvious, but when it comes to "war", once he makes a move, the weather changes immediately.

Xing'er and Yi'an can't compete with him in the art of war. The strength is that they are familiar with each other, and they are familiar with the terrain and paths in the town, and Zhaoren is behind the scenes. The two sides can be evenly matched.

After the battle every day, the general and the marshal went home for dinner together, and the soldiers and horses under their hands were stunned: "You are a family, why do you want us to fight?"

Xing'er said: "You still have two brothers, one follows He Zhen and the other follows me, don't you recognize your brothers?"

If there is no war, He Zhen will distribute some candies and sparks to his children. He said to Song Haonian: "I think they are greedy. I don't care about these things. If they take them home, the whole family will be happy." For several days."

Left and right, he knew well, and he didn't want to use it recklessly, Song Haonian and his wife both let him go.

Xing'er and Yi'an stomped their feet anxiously: "He is the most cunning!"

Their playmates all went with He Zhen: it's okay to have candy, but not everyone can get the fireworks.Even if Yi An goes out with fireworks now, it won't win people's hearts back - whoever shows them first will have the upper hand.

Within a few days, all the subordinates of the two generals rebelled, and they all followed General Hezhen.Hezhen unified Qingliu Town, and it was in the limelight for a while.

It was funny when Song Haonian thought about it, he wanted to write a letter to tell his parents, and He Zhen hurriedly came to beg for mercy: "Second Uncle, please don't tell Grandpa Huang and Grandpa!"

In the early years, Emperor Wuzong proclaimed himself a mighty general, which is a lesson for future emperors. It doesn't matter if Hezhen takes the children in the town to play.

Song Haonian didn't think of this before, He Zhen told him some things about Emperor Wu Zong with a bitter face, and sighed: "I don't know how to learn martial arts, but the officials will definitely call me ridiculous, just like another martial arts, When the time comes, Grandpa Huang will inevitably be angry, and it will be difficult for Father."

Song Haonian replied: "Don't worry, I won't let others know."

He Zhen was frightened by this, and he didn't have the heart to go out to play the prestige of a general. He has been messing around for more than ten days, and he has no shortcomings.Zhaoren said to him: "After the Lantern Festival, you should go back to the capital to go to school, don't delay any longer."

He Zhen was surprised and shouted: "Little aunt, why am I the only one going back first?"

Zhaoren glanced at him, "You are a boy, and your younger sisters will follow me to go to the girls' school. You are just adding to them. If you don't go back to Beijing to make up your homework, do you really think you are a girl?"

He Zhen refused to admit that he was a girl, so he humbly agreed to return to Beijing after the Lantern Festival. Thinking about it this way, he regretted that he hadn't had enough of being a general.

He Zhen hugged Ruzhen, and said with a serious face: "Ruzhen, when I return to the capital, the position of general will be passed on to you, and you have to keep it for your brother!"

Ruzhen clenched her fists and shouted: "Hold on!"

Lily: "Pfft!"

If so, how do you know what to hold on to?He is a baby of three or four years old, if he really can control a group of boys in their teens, he will really laugh out loud.

On the eleventh and twelfth day of the first lunar month, Song Haonian, his wife and Zhaoren took the children to paste lanterns, saying: "This year's lanterns for our family are just waiting for you to make them."

The children can draw, cut, paste, and make trouble, all with great enthusiasm.

Ruchun blinked her big eyes to see her brothers and sisters clumsily pasting the lanterns, and suddenly she stretched out her hand to grab the paste, which covered her whole body and face, and she was so anxious that she shouted, "Put it down quickly! Don't eat it!"

Mrs. Chang hurriedly hugged Ruchun to wash her face and change her clothes.

Ruchun is not bad, he didn't want to make trouble, but he was too young to understand what his brothers and sisters were doing.It's not easy to worry about the fact that there is a real devil in the family who really wants to make trouble: Ruzhen dipped his fingers in his saliva, and when he saw a sister paste a lantern, he would go up and poke it with his finger, and with a "snap" sound, he Laughing, the young lady cried, and the room was suddenly in a hurry.

Lily couldn't stand it anymore, and ordered Ruzhen not to make trouble, not only not to play, but also to help her sisters to make amends.

If really wronged, with tears in his eyes, he looked at Lily pitifully, seeing that Lily ignored him cruelly, he looked at Song Haonian pitifully.

Lily glanced at Song Haonian, Song Haonian withdrew his hand, and said to his son: "If you make trouble, you should be punished. I can't help you with this matter."

Ruzhen finally calmed down, handing bamboo sticks to Hezhen, paper to Yi'an, and a slice of shrimp to Ruchun. If he wears thick clothes, he will get tired after a while, so he needs to wear them with another hand.

The adults and children in the family can only make two kinds of lanterns, one color is round and the other is square, even if they are pasted with colored paper, they don't look very good.Fortunately, craftsman Li strips made all kinds of beautiful bamboo strips and sent them, so they just pasted colored paper on them.

Li Bamboo craftsman is skillful. Under his hands, the bamboo looks like long eyes. He obediently transforms himself into rabbits, sheep, monkeys, cats and dogs, etc., and weaves them into shapes of lotus, magnolia, and pomegranate flowers. They are sisters. Everyone is happy now, and each person chooses one, and the way is to take it out and compare it with others.

On the fifteenth day, the big lanterns are hung at the door, the children's small lanterns and candles are also ready, and sweet and salty glutinous rice balls are cooked at home.

The salty glutinous rice balls are stuffed with fresh pork, scallions, autumn oil, etc.; the sweet glutinous rice balls are fried with black sesame seeds, crushed peanuts, and chopped walnuts until they are crispy, and filled with sugar and lard. They are sweet and hot.

The [-]th day of the first lunar month is lively. Mr. Liu came to discuss with Song Haonian years ago. On this day, he invited a dragon and lion dance team in the name of Liu's mansion. On the stage of the temple fair, they sang fairy songs and pearl towers. The dragon and lion dance team came from the street. From one end to the other end, the gongs and drums are loud, and adults and children are watching.

There is also a team of boat lanterns, dressed in red and willow green, dressed up as various mythical characters, walking around the streets bustlingly, every family is willing to have a few steamed buns with them, and they sing an auspicious song, which is very interesting.

Among them is a flower boat. A strong man is holding the side of the boat with both hands, dressed as a big girl, singing and dancing.What was strange was that he was walking under the boat with his legs and feet, and there were a pair of artificial legs on the top of the flower boat, which suddenly looked like he was sitting on the boat, and the boat was floating along the water.

Ruzhen and Hanzhi widened their eyes, squatted down on the ground, saw a pair of man's big feet dancing left and right, and said in surprise: "This man has two pairs of legs!"

Song Haonian couldn't help laughing: "Haha, look at those legs above, they can't move."

The two young ones still didn't believe it, Ruzhen especially stretched out his hand to touch it, the flower boat was being performed lively, Song Haonian persuaded his son not to let him go, afterward when they were resting and drinking water, he walked over holding Ruzhen and asked Can you really touch it.

The people on the flower boat saw that Song Haonian and his son were well dressed and friendly, so they all smiled and said, "Touch it."

Ruzhen touched it curiously, and it was indeed made of cold paper and bamboo. It was really not a human leg, so he was relieved: "Father, it's not someone else's leg!"

He was also afraid that it was someone else's leg, so if someone put it on the flower boat, the other person would not be able to walk without the legs.

When it was getting dark, every household lit up lanterns, and with the full moon in the sky, the road was brightly illuminated.Even the Baishui River is full of colorful lanterns, like countless stars falling in the river, the world is like a Milky Way, very beautiful.

Song Haonian, Baihe, Zhaoren, Chang Niangzi and several family servants, each of them took a child to go out: going out at night with all kinds of illnesses, the children also watch the lanterns instead of the lanterns, this kind of excitement cannot be missed.

There are many children in the family, and it would be troublesome for someone who is not paying attention to step on them, so they made arrangements before going out. Xing'er followed Liu Yi and his wife, Mrs. Chang and Li Chouwa took care of Hanai and Hanfang.

Leave the two servants to look after the house, give the girl and the cook a holiday, and share a few lanterns with each of them to take home to play.

The adults took the children, and the children carried the lanterns, and went out in a mighty way, with unstoppable smiles on their faces.

When I went out, I saw that the lanterns of every family had ingenious ideas. Needless to say, the rich ones, like Hezhen, for the sake of always making troubles, finally used thin silk and satin to paste the lanterns. People who are too good should also use red paper to cut out the words Fu Lu Shou Xi and paste them on the lanterns for good luck.

In the past, it didn't take much time to pass through Qingliu Town, but that night, the whole town was on the street, full of people, laughing and laughing, walking on the street for [-] quarters of an hour, and I could still see my home when I turned around. Didn't get very far.

(End of this chapter)