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Fortunately, my uncle, aunt, and Qin Suyun brought people to help, otherwise we would have been in trouble.
After lunch, everyone rested for less than an hour before guests started arriving one after another.
That day, Lin Chuntao and her colleagues were busy until the hour of Hai. The moon had already climbed overhead when they had almost finished their work.
The meat and noodles were almost all sold out. Fortunately, Pei Ying brought the pig heads this afternoon. He cleaned them and Lin Chuntao braised them. Pei Ying also prepared the chicken and shank bones. After the pig heads were braised, he started to make the broth.
After dinner in the evening, Lin Chuntao prepared to send Qin Suyun and the others back first.
Qin Suyun saw that she hadn't finished her work yet and waved her hand: "Go ahead and do your work. Our way back isn't far. We'll come back tomorrow."
Lin Chuntao felt that she would be busy in the next two days, so she didn't hesitate.
Just as she was about to send them to the street, she saw Pei Jing driving a carriage. Qin Suyun and her people got on the carriage, and Lin Chuntao turned around and went back into the house.
My aunt and the others had just washed the dishes and were still wiping the table. Xu Sheng and Xu Huan were both exhausted.
Lin Chuntao said, "Looking at this situation, we'll have to hire two more people to wash the dishes and clean up the shop."
Hearing Lin Chuntao's words, and realizing that hiring someone would cost money, the aunt-in-law said, "Chuntao, if you're too busy, we can come and help. Why spend that money?"
Lin Chuntao looked at her uncle and aunt and said, "You still have things to do around the house. It's ok for you to help out for a couple of days, but if you stay here all the time, you won't be able to handle the housework."
My aunt said, "There's nothing much to do at home right now. We'll do it first, and you can find someone to do it when we're ready for spring planting."
Seeing that her aunt and the others were insisting, Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Then I'll look for someone first. I'll talk to you later when I find the right person."
It's a bit tiring after a busy day, but the hard work here is more promising than working in the fields. I can earn more than ten cents for each bowl I serve. What I earn today may not be earned in a year of farming.
Furthermore, Lin Chuntao had said before that she would give them 20%, so how could they feel comfortable taking her money for nothing? They thought that if the shop needed help, they would focus on this and help Lin Chuntao first.
Everyone helped to clean up, put away the tables and chairs in the shop, and tidied up the place. Lin Chuntao went to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote a note in black and white, putting into paper what she had said verbally before, and gave 20% of the income from the soup noodle shop to her uncle's family.
It was unknown what the future of this shop would look like, and Lin Chuntao was not sure to whom the soup noodle shop would be given in the future, or whether the sisters would remain inseparable. Therefore, Lin Chuntao wrote this document very carefully.
If the sisters split up in the future and the noodle shop is also separated, then they will have to discuss again how to give the money to Shengsheng and Huanhuan.
After listening to Lin Chuntao's words and looking at the deed, they knew that Lin Chuntao was giving them the money sincerely and would not deny the debt after it was written on paper.
It is still unknown how long Xu Sheng and Xu Huan will work with them. We can't just give them the share of the credit for as many years as Lin Chuntao and her friends have been running their shop.
Lin Chuntao gave the written document to her aunt, who put it away with a smile.
Lin Chuntao and the others had to go home. Lin Chunxing and Xu Huan were also tired. Lin Chuntao asked them to rest early and they prepared to go home first.
Lin Chunxing took out all the money she had received today and gave it to Lin Chuntao, asking her to take it home.
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "You've been busy all day, don't you want to count?"
Lin Chunxing smiled helplessly, "Tell me tomorrow when you've counted. I'm too tired and want to sleep."
Lin Chuntao took the bag and said, "Hurry up and wash up and go to bed. We'll go back first. You don't have to get up so early tomorrow. Sleep a little longer."
Several people agreed, Lin Chuntao went to lead the mule cart out, and everyone hurried back home.
Lin Chuntao and the others sent their uncle and others to the gate of the courtyard before going back. There were many things to do at home, so Lin Chunhe did not go today, and Lin Duoer also did not go because she had to learn new needlework techniques from Madam Fan. The two sisters waited from dusk until dusk and until dark, but Lin Chuntao and the others did not come back.
The two sisters waited until they were tired before Lin Chuntao and Pei Ying came back.
As soon as the person walked in, Lin Chunhe and Lin Chuntao asked in unison if he had eaten.
After that, the two sisters laughed and said together, "Eat it."
Lin Chuntao said, "It's so late, why don't you go to bed first? Why wait until now?"
Lin Duoer smiled and said, "We are curious about how much money we made today."
Speaking of money, Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "We haven't counted the money we received today yet. It's all in this cloth bag. Bring some hemp rope and we'll count it and string it up."
Lin Duoer looked at the large cloth bag in Lin Chuntao's hand, her eyes widened, and she quickly ran to get the hemp rope.
Lin Chuntao put the cloth bag containing copper coins on the table. Lin Chunhe took a cup and poured two cups of water. Lin Duoer also brought a hemp rope. The four of them sat around the table and began to count the money, one string at a time, and they counted more than six strings.
All the ingredients prepared yesterday were sold out. This number was within Lin Chuntao's expectations, but Pei Ying and Lin Chunhe were stunned, their eyes wide open in shock.
"Sister, you made so much today!" Lin Chunhe couldn't help but say. Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "This is the total for today. The money for buying vegetables hasn't been deducted yet. The money earned should be deducted from the money for buying vegetables."
"How much does it take to scrape it off?" Lin Duoer asked curiously.
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "I haven't calculated it in detail yet, so let's just cut it in half."
"Sister, even if we scrape off half of it, we'll still make a lot of money."
Lin Chuntao nodded. Even if half of it was deducted, the number was still a lot.
Lin Chunhe looked at the money and thought that the shop must be very busy today. She asked, "Sister, can you guys handle it?"
Lin Chuntao said, "My uncle and aunt went to help, and your sister Ayun also came with some people, so they can still handle it."
Lin Chunhe: "Uncle and the others will go and help for a few days. Second sister and the others will have to find someone to handle it later, right?"
"Well, we need to find at least two or three people to help with the dishes and clean up."
Lin Chuntao looked at Lin Chunhe's worried look and gently touched her head.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it. I'm already very busy with things at home, and it's late today. Go to bed. We still have to go to the shop tomorrow. You can cook and share it with your sister."
Lin Chunhe nodded and took Lin Duoer back to her room to sleep.
The business in the shop was very good. Lin Chuntao and her colleagues were busy until the end of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. The opening ceremony of the new shop was finally over, but because of the trial run in the previous few days, the taste of the soup noodles and braised meat had spread throughout the county town, and the business in the shop was still very good. The eldest and third aunts went to the shop to help. Now everyone was skilled and could still handle the work.
Lin Chuntao rested for two days, went into the mountains to cut a lot of oak wood, and placed it in the front yard to dry.
In his free time, Pei Ying also went to the river to pick up a lot of beautiful stones and built a small flower bed in the yard. Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Let's plant some vegetables first, and then plant flowers after the New Year."
Pei Ying smiled when he heard this and said, "Do you want to plant it now? I'll go get the vegetable seeds."
Lin Chuntao said, "I'll do it later, you take a rest."
After entering the twelfth lunar month, the villages and the county town gradually began to feel the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
There are more and more people selling couplets, window decorations, chickens, ducks, geese and pigs in the county town.
Qin Suyun had said before that she would slaughter a pig this year, and asked Lin Chuntao to help see if there were any live pigs to sell. Now that she had almost finished her housework, the villagers were also preparing to slaughter pigs one after another. Lin Chuntao bought two pigs in the next village, each weighing only about 200 pounds. She hurried back and put them in the pigpen, and they felt much smaller than the one at home.
The corn at home was almost dry, so she took a lot of it and ground it into flour to feed the pigs.
Lin Chuntao thought that feeding the pig with cornmeal would help it grow a few more pounds, so she planned to slaughter it before the Chinese New Year. However, the villagers started slaughtering the pig after the tenth day of the first lunar month, and for several days in a row, they ate every meal outside.
This year, many families in the village do not have to pay grain, and some families are exempted from part of the tax. They have a lot of surplus grain at home, so they can kill pigs and eat meat. With grain and meat, everyone is satisfied.
People like my great-grandmother and Aunt Guizhi took time out to go to the county town to buy cloth and make new clothes and shoes for the New Year.
Although she had made several sets of clothes this year, it was a custom to wear new clothes during the Chinese New Year, so Lin Chuntao still went to make two sets for each person.
On the day Lin Chuntao received her new clothes, Qin Suyun and Pei's mother came to their home and gave them New Year's goods and new clothes for the New Year, including two sets for each of her younger sisters.
Lin Chuntao said, "Mom, it's fine if you just do it for me and Pei Ying, I've done it for my sisters too."
Mother Pei looked at her and said, "Child, you can do it for them without delaying my work."
"Then I'll thank mother on behalf of my sisters."
"Don't be polite with me," said Pei's mother. Qin Suyun smiled beside her. Then Lin Chuntao asked, "Ayun, when will your restaurant start closing?"
Qin Suyun said, "We'll drive until the 24th and then take a break on the 25th."
Lin Chuntao: "That's perfect. We'll be slaughtering pigs on the 25th. Come early then."
"no problem."
Pei's mother said she wanted to go check on the pigs. Lin Chuntao led them to the pigpen. In the afternoon, the three pigs were lying inside snoring. Lin Chuntao pointed at the two newly bought ones, and Qin Suyun smiled and said, "They don't look particularly small."
Lin Chuntao said, "I've been grinding cornmeal to feed them recently. By the time we kill them, there should be about 240 to 250 kilograms."
Hearing that she was feeding grain to the pigs, Mother Pei looked at her in surprise. Lin Chuntao met Mother Pei's gaze and said, "The corn harvest is good this year, and meat is more expensive than grain."
Mother Pei curled her lips and asked Lin Chuntao, "After the New Year, are you going to sell some corn and buy some rice?"
"Well, let's do it after the New Year."
On their way back, Pei's mother and Qin Suyun said, "Let's go to the grain store and buy some rice and flour. We'll bring it to your sister-in-law and the others on the day we slaughter the pig."
Qin Suyun: "Okay, will Dad go with us on the day of slaughtering the pig?"
Mother Pei said, "He's fine at home, so he must go."
Qin Suyun smiled when she heard this, and Pei's mother pursed her lips. She saw that Qin Suyun and Lin Chuntao had such a good relationship. One was the eldest daughter-in-law and the other was the youngest daughter-in-law. She owed a lot to Pei Ying. Whether it was making clothes or buying food, she did not hide anything from Qin Suyun. Qin Suyun did not care about these things, but she was also afraid that Qin Suyun would have some ideas.
She pondered for a moment and said to Qin Suyun, "Ayun, please don't think too much about me arranging all these for Chuntao and the others. I feel so hurt. I just think that your eldest brother and Chuntao got married and lived their lives by yourself. I always feel indebted, especially with your eldest brother's personality. If it weren't for Chuntao, I don't know what to do."
Qin Suyun looked at the worry in Pei's mother's eyes and smiled, "What are you thinking, mother? I won't have any extra thoughts about how you treat my elder brother and the others. Besides, you can rest assured about my relationship with Chuntao."
Mother Pei looked at Qin Suyun and thought of how close she and Lin Chuntao were to each other, like sisters. Sometimes she couldn't understand why the two of them could be so close.
She also talked about it with Pei's father, and Pei's father said: "Maybe this is fate. God destined us to be a good family."
After returning to the county town, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went straight to the grain store.
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chai Xingyu brought people to take away Liu Tan’s new sauce, and it was officially put on sale on the sixteenth.
Lin Chuntao went to take a look and found that Chai Xingyu was still doing a food tasting in front of the shop. The shop was crowded with people and it was impossible to get in.
She watched for a while and saw that many people were very satisfied after trying the food, and many people were buying it, so she didn't go into the shop. She went back to find Lin Chunxing and planned to discuss a closing date for the shop.
Lin Chuntao planned to work until the 24th, clean up, and then take a break on the 25th, but Lin Chunxing was reluctant to do so, as she felt that she would lose a lot of money if she took a day off.
Lin Chuntao said, "We've worked hard this year. Now we have new clothes, a new house, and a shop. We've also saved a lot of money. There's no end to making money! Besides, isn't the purpose of making money so you can rest whenever you want?"
Lin Chunxing felt that what Lin Chuntao said made sense, but she just couldn't let it go.
Seeing her reluctant look, Lin Chuntao said, "Rest early and let your aunt and the others go back to take care of things at home. Besides, we also need to prepare New Year's goods. If you really can't bear to leave, just put up a notice at the door a few days in advance, offering to fry some meat sauce for sale. That way, even if we rest, those who want to eat soup noodles can still have some."
Lin Chunxing chuckled, "No, then we'll all rest. Let everyone think about what they want to eat. The customers will come back when we open the store after the New Year."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Then it's settled. On the evening of the 24th, clean up the shop and lock the door before returning. On the 25th, we'll slaughter the pig. After we're done, we'll count the profits from the shop and give some to my uncle and his family."
"good."
Lin Chunxing agreed, and on the 23rd she posted a notice in front of the shop saying that she would take a break on the 25th so that everyone would not miss it.
As for Aunt Guizhi and the others who worked at home, Lin Chuntao had invited them to sit down and chat for a while. They had ten days of rest, and they would be paid during the rest period. They could choose any ten days they wanted. However, since this work required people to dry the sauce and steam the beans every day, at least two or three people were needed to do it. During the rest period, they would be paid three days' wages for each day they worked.
Hearing this, Meng Yun suddenly looked up at Lin Chuntao and asked uncertainly, "Madam, for three days, twenty cents a day, does that mean sixty cents?"
Lin Chuntao nodded, "That's right."
Sixty cents a day for doing it during these ten days! Everyone present was shocked. Aunt Guizhi and the grandmother were the first to do it, and then six more people came in. There were two people that Lin Chuntao called aunt, and two younger ones that Lin Chuntao called sister-in-law.
Everyone must have been shocked after hearing this.
They were already very happy to be able to earn money by working in the village. After they came here to work, many people in the village were envious of them. It was shocking enough that Lin Chuntao let them rest and paid them wages during the New Year. If others knew that they could earn sixty cents a day for working during this period, wouldn’t they be so envious that their eyes would pop out?
Meng Yun also swallowed her saliva. She had met many bosses, but this was the first time she met someone like Lin Chuntao.
"Ma'am, does everyone have it?"
Lin Chuntao nodded. "Yes, that's the ten days you'll take off. Please register with Madam Meng. Then, we'll discuss and determine in advance who can come back to work during the break and how many days they'll work."
After finishing speaking, Lin Chuntao looked at Meng Yun and said, "Madam Meng, please tell me after you have registered."
Meng Yun nodded.
Sixty cents a day, everyone is willing to do it for the money.
But after thinking about it and discussing it, everyone decided that three people could work together to form four groups. If there were ten days, they would not work on New Year's Eve and the first day of the New Year, so each group would work for two days.
They quickly discussed and decided on it, and Meng Yun gave the list to Lin Chuntao.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, many people slaughter pigs, and many families in the county town will also do their part. Two or three families will buy a pig together to slaughter and share the meat. Many people will also carry the meat to the county town to sell after slaughtering the pig. There are also fewer people coming to Helan Shop to buy meat.
This happens every year, and Helan also posts a notice in advance that the company will start resting on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.
On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, it’s time to sweep the house.
Every household in the village cleaned the house carefully inside and out, and everyone carried all their dirty clothes and shoes to the river to wash them.
Lin Chuntao and her friends were exhausted after cleaning. They had to slaughter the pig tomorrow, so Lin Chuntao postponed the laundry for another day.
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the sisters all slept until dawn.
After washing up, Lin Chuntao quickly made the dough and let it rise. She would steam buns later or meat dumplings later. After the dough was ready, she quickly soaked the rice.
Pei Ying dug a fire hole outside the yard, preparing to boil water to scald the pig bristles.
To slaughter three pigs, Lin Chuntao asked Lin Changzong and her uncle to help press the pigs in advance. Everyone arrived before the sun came up.
Qin Suyun and the others arrived quickly. Just a moment after my uncle and his friends entered the door, Qin Suyun and the others arrived driving a mule cart.
There were several sacks of stuff on the mule cart. Lin Chuntao looked at Qin Suyun and asked, "What are these?"
Qin Suyun smiled and said, "Mother bought some rice and flour. Today, the mule cart was empty, so she brought a few bags here."
Lin Chuntao thought of the day when Pei's mother asked her if she wanted to sell some corn to buy rice. She said she would do it after the New Year, and the old lady went to buy it.
She looked at Pei's mother and said, "Mom, you are so mean. I just bought a lot of rice and flour a few days ago."
Mother Pei said, "Just keep it and eat it slowly if you buy it. It's not like you can't finish it."
Lin Chuntao: "We will buy these, how can we let you spend money all the time?"
Qin Suyun pulled Lin Chuntao and said with a smile: "Mom loves her son deeply, so don't be polite to her. I am not polite either."
Hearing Qin Suyun's words, Lin Chuntao smiled helplessly, and several people unloaded the rice and flour from the mule cart and carried them into the house.
When the sun rose, Pei Ying and his men tied the pigs out, and soon the pigs' squeals echoed throughout the village.
The men were outside scraping the pigs and dividing the meat, while Lin Chuntao and the others were washing and picking vegetables in the yard.
One of the three pigs belonged to Qin Suyun and her friends. Lin Chuntao asked Pei Ying to divide the meat first. The meat was brought in and placed on the straw. Lin Chuntao picked out a few pieces, such as shoulder meat and pig neck meat. She quickly cut them into small pieces, cleaned them, and stewed them in a big pot. These were to be eaten when the villagers were invited to the pig-killing dinner in the evening.
After this was done, Lin Chuntao allowed her aunt and the others to start cutting food for lunch.
At noon, we eat stir-fried meat, stir-fried pork liver, pickled pig blood, blood tofu and the like.
After all the pigs were cooked, Qin Suyun suggested braising some pig heads or something, and even brought their pig heads to braise. Lin Chuntao said, "If you want to braise them, I'll just use these two. You can put yours aside for now."
Qin Suyun refused, and Lin Chuntao didn't bother to be polite with her and braised two more pig heads.
After lunch, everyone rested for a while. Everyone chopped the meat, and Lin Chuntao mixed the meat with spicy spices. A group of people sat in the yard to make sausages.
Qin Suyun knows how to make dumplings, so she sat with Lin Chunxing and the others to make them. After Grandma and Aunt Guizhi were busy for a while, they had nothing to do, so they sat under the eaves and chatted with Pei's mother and father.
Pei Jing was probably the most uncomfortable. He couldn't find any topics to talk about with the old man, and he was not very good at doing these chores.
Pei Ying was preparing to rub salt on the meat to marinate it, which gave him an opportunity.
"Are you going to sprinkle salt on it?"
Pei Ying looked up at him when he heard that. He saw that the adults and children outside were doing their own things, but he didn't know what he was doing. Then he nodded lightly.
Pei Jing said: "Let me pour it for you."
As he spoke, he took the salt shaker and asked, "How much do you want to sprinkle?"
"You keep spilling it, and I'll tell you when it's enough."
Father Pei hadn't seen Pei Jing for a while and wanted to go see what he was doing. After turning around, he found Pei Jing working with Pei Ying. He went back and sat down silently.
Looking at the lively courtyard, he wanted to celebrate the New Year with Pei Ying and the others.
But I’m afraid it won’t work this year, so I simply didn’t bring it up.
Lin Chuntao and the others worked until the afternoon, and the meat was cooked, with the aroma of braised meat filling the air.
Qin Suyun and Lin Chuntao were preparing to cook, while Lin Chunxing took Lin Chunhe to the village to call people for dinner.
It is easier to invite people to a pig-killing dinner. You can have it at your house today and at my house tomorrow. Everyone will come when you call them. Besides, they came to the dinner when Lin Chuntao moved. The various flavors at that time are still fresh in my memory and make me salivate.
After the pig-killing meal, young and old sat and chatted until dusk before dispersing.
Qin Suyun and her friends only took away a small portion of the meat from the pig to eat during the New Year, and the rest was pickled together with that of Lin Chuntao and her friends.
After they left, only my uncle and aunt were left at home.
She was busy making food during the day, packing sausages and making dumplings, and the lard had not been boiled yet. Now that the fire was idle after dinner, Lin Chuntao boiled the lard.
You don't have to keep an eye on the charcoal in the stove; just stir the pot occasionally.
After the shop opened, Lin Chuntao kept accounts. After deducting the cost of ingredients, she made a lot of money in the past 24 days. If she gave 20% to her uncle and others, it would be 18 taels and 240 coins.
A few days ago, Lin Chuntao went to exchange money and exchanged all the copper coins for silver.
Lin Chuntao took out the copper coins for the small amount, and took out the silver for the big amount.
The children were playing outside, and there were only six people in the house: Lin Chuntao, Lin Chunxing, their uncle and aunt, and Xu Huan and Xu Sheng.
When Lin Chuntao said eighteen taels, the room was so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard.
Xu Sheng and Xu Huan also looked at each other, their pupils dilated.
This is just one month’s earnings!
Lin Chuntao said, "We opened a new shop this month, and it's the twelfth lunar month, so people are more willing to spend money on food, so we're making pretty good money."
The aunt was speechless for a long time. She worked in the shop and of course she knew that business was good this month, but the good business was Lin Chuntao's business. When Lin Chuntao said that she would give them a 20% share, she felt that the 20 or 30 grams a month were all extra for them by Lin Chuntao. She didn't expect that Lin Chuntao would take out so much to share with them.
"Chun... Chuntao, isn't this a bit too much?" Auntie asked incoherently. Lin Chuntao said, "Auntie, this is the amount we agreed on. Business is pretty good this month, but the food business also has its downturns, so we might not be able to get this much."
Lin Chuntao said this as she handed the silver to her aunt.
There was a ten-liang silver ingot, and the remaining eight liang was a few pieces of silver. Under the dim firelight, my aunt-in-law looked at the silver that was shining with silver light, and she took it with trembling hands for a long time.
Eighteen taels! Even though her family has saved up for many years, it still doesn’t have that much.
"Thank you Chuntao." said my aunt.
Looking at her aunt's expression and listening to her tone, Lin Chuntao said, "Aunt, please don't say that. You've worked hard for a month, and I'm the one who should thank you. Let's help each other, and our future will definitely get better and better."
My aunt nodded.
“Well, it’s definitely going to get better!”
The aunt-in-law accepted the money and waited until the lard was cooked before they went back.
The most important thing in the twelfth lunar month has been done, and the next thing is to wait for the New Year.
While washing clothes and bed sheets, Lin Chuntao got some beans and ground them to make tofu. Aunt Guizhi and the others made konjac tofu and sent some to Lin Chuntao. Lin Chuntao also sent them some tofu and freshly made chili sauce.
On the 30th, the whole family got up early.
The pigs have been killed, and there are only two mules and chickens to feed.
After breakfast, the sisters began to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, soaking rice and dried vegetables, cooking meat, and killing chickens and geese. Lin Chuntao also made some dumplings and cooked some red beans to make red bean paste filling. Lin Chuntao wanted to eat buns with red bean paste filling.
Lin Duoer leaned against Lin Chuntao and said coquettishly, "Sister, I still want to eat that sweet bun."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "We have some dough that has risen. We'll steam it soon."
The meal was almost ready before the sun set. Lin Chuntao bought fireworks, firecrackers, window decorations and couplets early.
She made some paste with buckwheat flour and called Pei Ying and Lin Chunxing to paste couplets and window decorations.
After the couplets were posted, Lin Chuntao cooked longevity vegetables and fried eggs. After all the dishes were served on the table, she called Pei Ying to go outside to set off firecrackers.
Hearing the crackling sound, everyone in the village looked over.
Someone laughed and said, "Oh, Chuntao and the others made it so quickly, and they're going to eat it already?"
The person next to him took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Chun Tao and the others also bought firecrackers. I wonder if they bought any fireworks?"
"Fireworks aren't cheap, only people in the county would buy them."
The children only listened to what they wanted to hear, and the adults were talking at the same time, and they only heard the word "fireworks".
In the past, there were many opera troupes in the county town on the second and third days of the Lunar New Year. They would follow their parents to the county town to play, and could only watch the operas at night. But this year they can watch them in the village?
The clever kids looked at each other and thought that they should eat faster so that they can watch the fireworks.
After setting off the firecrackers, Lin Chuntao took them back to the house to prepare dinner.
inside the house.
There is red charcoal in the stove, rich food on the table, and a strong fragrance in the air.
Lin Chuntao glanced at Pei Ying, took out a wine jar and poured two cups, while Lin Chunxing poured sweet osmanthus wine for herself and her sisters.
Everyone took a sip from their cups.
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Happy New Year's Eve! Let's eat!"
Lin Duoer: "Sister, this sweet wine doesn't taste like alcohol."
Lin Chunxing: "It's just sweet water for children, not wine."
Lin Duoer took the porcelain bottle and looked at it carefully. Lin Chuntao said, "Hurry up and eat! All these delicious foods will get cold soon. After we finish eating, let's go set off the fireworks!"
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