Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu were reluctant to part with the tiger, and it took a long time to calm them down after they cried and fussed.
It was getting late, and the two children were tired from crying, so Zhang Shuzhen coaxed them to sleep. The others, who were also exhausted from the day, went to rest as well.
When they woke up on the morning of the 30th, there was a thick layer of snow outside, so the Sheng brothers quickly got up to shovel it.
As soon as the gate was opened, two deer were placed at the entrance, along with several large plum blossom-shaped footprints.
Needless to say, this must have been brought back by Hua Hua and her children last night.
"Quickly, drag the deer back."
The two deer, one male and one female, had only wounds on their necks; otherwise, they were intact and still warm, indicating they had just been brought in.
The brothers quickly dragged the deer into the yard, cleared out a space, and began to gut and skin it.
When they were cleaning the doe, they discovered that there was a deer fetus inside its belly.
This is a wonderful product. When combined with medicinal herbs to make deer placenta paste, it can treat many gynecological diseases, especially infertility caused by cold uterus, with very significant effects.
Sheng Xiping and Sheng Xi'an tidied up the two deer, while Sheng Xikang and Sheng Xitai went to shovel snow.
After they had tidied up the outside, Zhang Shuzhen had prepared breakfast and invited the children inside to eat.
The two deer were quite large, and they had a lot of meat inside. They were carried into the house in a large basin.
When Zhang Shuzhen saw the meat, she couldn't help but sigh, "This Huahua is so thoughtful, she brought roe deer yesterday and deer today."
Venison is a good thing; it's perfect for nourishing Qinglan.
Zhou Qinglan had just given birth to twins, and her body was severely weakened. After returning home, Zhang Shuzhen always prepared different kinds of food for her to help her recover and prevent any health problems from developing.
Knowing that Huahua had brought things back again this morning, Sheng Xinhua didn't cry or make a fuss this time.
She took her younger brother and the two of them happily ate breakfast before running out to play.
These two boys now have plenty of playmates, not only the Liu family's boys, but also the children of Chen Weiguo, Gao Haining, and Wang Jianshe.
These children have been playing together since they were little, and they have a very good relationship. They are always in a big group, and no one dares to bully them when they go out to play.
On Lunar New Year's Eve, every household is busy putting up couplets, hanging lanterns, and preparing delicious food.
The Sheng family was no exception. Apart from the two who went out to play and the newborn baby who had just turned one month old on the kang in the west room, everyone was busy.
Inside the kitchen, various aromas filled the room as people fried, stir-fried, and cooked.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the reunion dinner was ready, with more than a dozen dishes filling a large table.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me take a couple of photos first."
Zhang Shuzhen invited everyone to sit down and eat, but Sheng Xiping quickly waved his hand to stop them, then went to the west room and took out his camera.
First, I took a picture of the food on the table, and then I had the family gather together and took several more pictures.
Such a scene of a large family celebrating the Lunar New Year together will be a most precious memory in twenty or thirty years.
In the future, these brothers and sisters will all be scattered across the country and have their own families. Who knows how many years they might be able to come back and get together? Let's take more pictures.
"Hey, just take a couple of pictures and call it a day. Hurry up and eat. That film is ridiculously expensive, why waste it?"
Sheng Liancheng frowned as he saw his son taking pictures incessantly.
Spending five or six hundred yuan on a camera, not using it for anything productive, just taking pictures of the food on the table? Isn't that film money? What a waste.
Since his father had spoken, Sheng Xiping could no longer continue taking pictures, so he put the camera away and locked it in the cabinet in the west room.
Then they went back to the east room and sat down, and the family began to eat.
When the whole family is reunited, with a table full of delicious food, it's a good time to have a drink.
Sheng Xiping and his brothers drank baijiu with Sheng Liancheng, while Sheng Yunfang and Sheng Yunfei, along with Sheng Xitai and the others, drank soda with Zhang Shuzhen.
As for Zhou Qinglan, she could only drink soup. She couldn't drink anything too cold while breastfeeding, as it could easily upset her spleen and stomach, causing diarrhea, and her baby would suffer as well.
With so many dishes prepared, the fires in the several stoves at home have been burning since morning, making the kang (heated brick bed) so hot it was burning your bottom, and the house was cozy.
Everyone was wearing only thin cotton-padded jackets, their faces were rosy, and they were all beaming with happy smiles.
After dark, Sheng Liancheng called to his son to plug in the lanterns outside. The bright red lanterns illuminated the courtyard, adding to the festive atmosphere.
Last autumn, a power station was built at the Baixi Forest Farm to supply electricity to the surrounding forest farms and villages.
Electricity was also connected to the Dajianchang area this autumn, so it's no longer pitch black at night like in previous years.
If you stand on a high point in Nanshan and look down, you can see that every household in the valley is lit up, like a sky full of stars.
On New Year's Eve, lights are everywhere, families are reunited, and the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder.
The new year has quietly arrived, bringing new hope and new expectations to everyone.
When the clock struck twelve, Sheng Xiping and his wife went to wish Sheng Liancheng and his wife a Happy New Year.
"Dad, Mom, Happy New Year." Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times. "Grandpa, Grandma, Happy New Year."
Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), beaming with joy. "Good, good, all good. Oh dear, you two should get up quickly, the floor is cold."
As they spoke, the two of them took out a stack of red envelopes from their pockets and handed them out one by one.
"These are for Xinyue and Xinqi. Keep them for them and give them to them when the children are older."
Sheng Xiping and his wife no longer have the opportunity to receive red envelopes, but their two daughters are still young, so they can help them.
The remaining few all received red envelopes.
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