Xue Xiang had just put on his clothes, but before he could enjoy the service provided by the third child, the door outside was banged. The three young boys made a sound and ran out without even bothering to go back to their rooms to hide the red envelopes.
A few days ago, the New Year's greeting regiment from the military compound, with the help of internal agents, broke into the Xue family mansion and rushed in.
"New Year's greetings, please go forward politely, a bowl of tea and rice, and sweet candies. If you don't want them, just pour them into your pocket." This is a unique and slippery boy who sings about the falling lotus.
"Third brother, Happy New Year, I wish you a happy New Year." This is a reserved young man.
"Third brother, Happy New Year, I'm here to give you some sweets." This is a snotty kid who expresses his feelings directly.
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Before Xue Xiang left the room, he heard New Year greetings from all over the yard. He hurriedly put down the towel in his hand, ran into Kang Tong's room, took out three large wooden trays, and put them on the newly installed Eight Immortals table in the main room. The color of the wooden trays
It is red in color, half a meter long and a foot wide, and is filled with melon seeds, candies and biscuits, which Xue Xiang prepared in advance last night.
As soon as Xue Xiang stood still in the main room, the young boys and girls rushed in. Everyone was brightly dressed and smiling, showing that they were excited to the core for this unprecedented New Year greeting event. I thought so, who could ask for snacks openly and openly?
The doll is still strong.
As soon as everyone squeezed into the main room, their eyes fell on the three plates and stopped moving. They all stopped making noises, and their hearts were full of surprise. Although they had tasted candies and biscuits when they were playing at Xue Xiang's house before the New Year, they were nothing like that.
However, I thought it was the snacks that the third brother bought for Xiaowan and her sister. Who would have expected that the third brother would actually bring out a full plate, which he wanted to distribute to everyone.
You must know that white sugar now has to be purchased with a ticket, not to mention various fruit candies and biscuits. Moreover, the prices of such snacks are so high that most people are not willing to buy them by the pound, let alone give them away to celebrate the New Year.
What about the children? At this time, most of the food prepared by each family is fried peanuts, fried broad beans, popcorn, rice cakes, etc. Even melon seeds are not something that every family can afford.
Xue Xiang didn't wait for the children to come to their senses. He came forward with a plate filled with fruit candies and stuffed a handful into the children's bags one by one. After giving out the candies, the biscuits and melon seeds did not fall down.
All the children were beaming with joy and kept shouting "Thank you, Third Brother". They intuitively felt that they had made the right choice to be the first one to wish Third Brother New Year.
After handing out the snacks, the children were about to retreat and rush to their next home, but were stopped by Xue Xiang. Xue Xiang took out a brand new coin from his coat pocket: "Come on, come on, it's Chinese New Year, third brother."
I will give you new year's money, two cents each, to buy pencils and exercise books, so that you can get good grades in the exam next year."
Xue Xiang's voice fell, and all the dolls collectively turned to stone: What, there is still money to pay, this, I have never heard the adults in the family say this. All the dolls numbly took the two cents, and even forgot to say thank you, took the money, and floated
Immediately they left the main room, and when they reached the gate, they all accelerated together and ran out of the house. They were afraid that the third brother who had handed out the money had just woken up and didn't want to think about it and wanted to take this huge sum of money back from him. When would he?
I’ve got a few cents in my pocket, wow wow wow
After Xiao Wan and the other three set off with the large army, Xue Xiang went back to his room, finished washing, and began to clean the house. It was only six o'clock at this time, and the winter night was long, and there was no light in the sky. Xue Xiang turned on the street lights in the verandah of the courtyard and started cleaning.
Sweep the floor. The yard has not yet been cleared away from the firecrackers that were set off at noon yesterday and the remaining confetti from the fireworks that went off at night. At this moment, it is time to clean up in preparation for the guests.
As soon as Xue Xiang put down his broom, Kang Tong, Zhu Shijun, and Lei Xiaotian came together to fight. The three of them all handed over their hands: "Third brother, Happy New Year. I wish you a happy New Year."
Xue Xiang went up to greet them, stretched out his hand to shake hands with the three of them, and said with a smile: "Happy New Year, Happy New Year, you guys are so early." On this day all year round, a few guys who are very familiar with each other will talk about some things.
With a false gesture, Xue Xiang took back his hand and said again: "Come and give New Year greetings to Third Brother. Third Brother will give you red envelopes." After saying that, Xue Xiang took out three extra-large red envelopes from the inner pocket of his coat and stuffed them into them.
people.….
The three of them refused repeatedly, but Xue Xiang forcibly stuffed them into their coat pockets. Each red envelope contained twenty pieces of unity, which Xue Xiang specially prepared for the three of them.
Since my wallet became plump, three
Although people follow him to eat and drink, he doesn't have much money in his pocket. Fortunately, Kang Tong has no other social activities except this small circle, so naturally he has no expenses. But Zhu Shijun and Lei Xiaotian are different.
nature
Relationships are indispensable. They are both young men and they both want face. Even if they are short of money, they are embarrassed to speak to Xue Xiang. After rebirth, Xue Xiang is naturally no better than a young man. He is well versed in the world of people and is familiar with it. Naturally, he can think
In such a corner, he just suffered from the lack of opportunity to gift the money to him in a legitimate manner. Likewise, he also had to take care of the feelings and skin of the three brothers. He was looking forward to the Spring Festival, so when he got the opportunity, he naturally had to deal with this issue.
Solved.
After the three of them reluctantly accepted it, they went back to the main room with Xue Xiang and started drinking tea and chatting. Not long after, another group of New Year's greetings arrived, which frightened Xue Xiang and hurriedly called Kang Tong and three others to get up to receive the guests. This group was bigger than the previous group.
There were more people in the group. At a glance, it turned out that
As far as the eye could see, the army was like a long dragon, pouring in from the gate in a steady stream. Xue Xiang and the others were stunned for a while: There don't seem to be so many boys in this courtyard. Girls, they are boys from the division and regiment level courtyard. Girls.
We fought together, but there was no such formation.
It turns out that the Xue family's generous reward was already spread out by the boys and girls in the military compound. I think so, after visiting so many families, only a few of them were willing to give out sweets, and they were counting the pellets.
, each person only got one or two, unlike the third brother, who packed handfuls into the bag; there were even fewer people giving out money, so the boys and girls dared to lose.
Wang. Comparing the two, everyone misses the treatment they enjoyed at Brother Xue’s house more. How can they hold back their pride and show off when they meet familiar playmates? That’s it, near the military compound.
The boys and girls were all excited by the brand-new two-cent coins. At that moment, they rushed to the house where the money was said to be given out.
Amidst a wave of New Year's greetings, Xue Xiang greeted Kang Tong and the three of them each carried wooden trays to prepare for the guests. He then rushed back to Kang Tong's room and took out the snakeskin bag filled with candies. After a lot of tossing early in the morning
, the dolls are very excited about the process of New Year greetings.
Having become proficient in it, after shouting the New Year greetings, they consciously lined up in front of Kang Tong and the others, preparing to receive the "trophies". At this time, Xue Xiang had already filled the three large plates with fruit candies, and the three of them started
Busy working to pay tribute to the dolls.
Finally, the long queue at the door subsided. At this time, the Xue Family Courtyard was almost packed, and there were three columns in the main room, and candy was being distributed in an orderly manner.
"Who is that? Where can I get the money?" After receiving the candy, the person was still lingering in the main room, waiting to receive the money. After all, the children were too embarrassed to ask for it. Finally, one of the children who couldn't hold back "speak up".
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"Get money? What kind of money?" Lei Xiaotian was confused.
"New Year's money!" All the children in the courtyard shouted in unison, and the overwhelming momentum made Lei Xiaotian jump.
"How can we give out money for New Year greetings? Brothers and sisters who have received the candies, please evacuate quickly. Isn't there still a blockage behind you?" Zhu Shijun smiled and looked at the dolls whose mouths were enough to hang oil bottles, and teased
Come on, the three of them really didn't know that Xue Xiang had any precedent of handing out money.
"I'm lying to you, look at what this is. This is what Third Brother sent to me this morning." The person who spoke was the snot-nosed kid who came to "Third Brother" for sweets in the morning, but I saw him holding up a twenty-cent coin with his feet up.
, his big eyes stared at Kang Tong provocatively, and then glanced proudly at the dolls around him. The snot-nosed baby was blatantly coming to pay his respects to the New Year and receive two rewards, but when he heard that the reward was gone,
Wherever you promise, of course you have to stand up
He came out as a tainted witness to expose Kang Tong's lies. Earlier, Sniffy Baby went out with the army for a walk. The small schoolbag was also full, but it was full of broad beans and peanuts. He had seen a lot of candies.
With "huge amounts of money", he had no sense of accomplishment. After hearing that the other children said that they were going to pay New Year's greetings at the house where the money was distributed, the snot-nosed child felt that he could follow them to pay New Year's greetings and receive rewards. No, he just followed them carelessly.
Coming….
Xue Xiang looked at the unhappy snot-nosed baby and couldn't laugh or cry. The new year's money he had prepared earlier was just used to give away the familiar dolls in the compound. Who knew that these dolls were "connected to foreign countries" and attracted foreign enemies to kill them?
Entering, it made it difficult for him
. It’s not that Xue Xiang is reluctant to part with these dozens of New Year’s money. It’s just a celebration during the New Year, but the key is that he has almost spent the cents he prepared, and there are still about ten left, which is not enough for the two or three in front of him.
Hundreds of dolls send it.
"Xiao Kang, go to Lao Wang's place right away, get all the dimes from his store, and send these little ancestors away quickly." Xue Xiang had no choice but to ask Kang Tong to go to Lao Wang in the military region's grocery store to exchange change.
Kang Tong responded and ran away. After a while, he ran back with an old yellow drawer in his arms, "Third brother, they are all here."
Xue Xiang took it and looked at it with joy. There were twenty or thirty tying tickets in the drawer, which should be more than enough to send these kids away.
ps: Cooking pig meat during the Spring Festival and eating pig tails to cure a runny nose were all interesting stories of the author when I was a child. As for the New Year saying of "worshiping sugar", it was a "heartfelt remark" that the author shouted when he was a child and was laughed at for a long time.
There is indeed much to write about the Spring Festival of 1977. It can be said that the break between the old and the new Spring Festival is the beginning of the transition.
It started that year, but after all, this book is still an official document. After all the nostalgia, it’s time to turn to the topic. In addition, let me say that this book will intersperse some nostalgic plots from time to time, and will not deliberately fight for the sake of struggle. After all,
Xue Xiang's age at this time is really not suitable for giving him a big official position, so I try not to deviate from the topic.