After getting busy, the wait for the holiday passes quickly.
I was so busy that it was time for my vacation.
Jiang Yunchen just waited for Qiao Xiazhi to take a vacation so he could start his vacation.
Qiao Daguo and Qiao Xiazhi have already agreed on the time, so Qiao Erguo, Wang Erqiang and others just need to be ready to go home and close the store at any time.
On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the group drove two cars directly home.
Because the elderly and children have already returned home, it is enough for the remaining few of them to drive home.
If you leave at five or six in the morning, you can basically get home around five or six in the evening, just in time for dinner.
When they got home in the evening, Qiao Xiazhi and his friends returned to the courtyard house they had not seen for a long time.
The courtyard is very grand, with six garden parking spaces on each side of the outer courtyard, which can accommodate 12 cars.
So even if the kids all buy cars in the future, there won’t be a shortage of parking spaces.
At worst, we can just buy another piece of land and build a garden parking lot.
Turn left after entering the gate and you will see the large kitchen and then the main courtyard.
In the middle of the main courtyard is a large restaurant hall that can accommodate three large tables.
There are side rooms on both sides of the restaurant's main hall.
It was built according to the ancient pattern.
But they didn't have any maids, so the two side rooms were naturally warehouses.
Then there are the east wing, the west wing, and the rooms of my grandparents and Qiao Dashan and his wife.
A deep well was specially dug at the kitchen door to make water convenient for the family.
The yard in the middle is also quite large, and children can play in it.
Walking to both sides, there are three courtyards at the back.
There is a yard on the east side, plus a backyard garden. The garden is connected to the backyards on the east and west sides, and there are many fruit trees planted in it.
There is also a lotus pond with lotus roots planted in it and fish raised in it.
When they came back this time, Qiao Dashan and Qiao Xiaoshan dug up a lot of lotus roots, and several dishes tonight were made with lotus roots.
This back garden is also convenient for taking a walk after meals to help digest food.
Of course, you can also take a walk outside the yard to digest your food, but this place was mainly built for raising fish, planting lotus and fruit trees.
After coming back, grandpa caught a lot of fish here and made them into cured fish and spicy fish fillets.
Spicy fish nuggets, kids' favorite.
There are two courtyards in the west yard, and the families of Qiao Xiazhi and Qiao Dongzhi live in these two courtyards.
Qiao Daguo and his family live in the east courtyard.
The allocation is just right.
The courtyard is all built with two floors.
Because the kitchen and dining room can be omitted, the yard is built with living quarters, toilets and bathrooms.
So there are at least eight to ten rooms in a courtyard.
As for the second floor of the main courtyard, the restaurant hall does not have a second floor.
But it is an elevated high-rise building. The ancestral tablets need a place to be placed, so the building is two stories high, but it is an elevated floor.
In this way, even if there are three large tables and ancestral tablets here, it will not feel oppressive.
It's also spacious and bright.
According to the older generation, with such a layout, it would be comfortable for their ancestors to live and chat here.
The second floor of the east wing is a large study room where children can read and study.
The second floor of the west wing was originally intended to be used as an entertainment room, but Qiao Dashan and his wife wanted to live on the second floor, so they swapped the two floors. They lived on the second floor, and the first floor was used as an entertainment room.
Play mahjong for entertainment after dinner.
It's so comfortable to live in a yard like this.
Because the elderly people in the family had come back early to clean up, Qiao Xiazhi and his family had hot meals to eat as soon as they got home.
Naturally, the fish raised at home and the lotus roots grown at home are indispensable on the dinner table in the evening.
Lotus root and pork ribs soup is a family favorite.
When stewing lotus root soup, you have to use a big pot.
It is a big pot that is round and tall, but has a cone-shaped bottom.
Stew a pot and share it with the whole family.
The lotus root and pork ribs soup stewed with firewood is so delicious.
This time, the Qiao Xiaoshan brothers ordered three pigs from a pig farm in advance, so that their family would have enough bones and ribs to eat.
After dinner, Jiang Yunchen was responsible for sending Wang Erqiang's family home, and Qiao Xiazhi and the others gathered everyone together to start entertainment, and the children went to bed early.
But they didn't play for long during the day.
After some proper entertainment, we all went to bed early.
The next day, the whole family went to the street to buy New Year's goods.
Before they came back, it was inconvenient for Qiao Dashan and his family because they didn't have a car, and it was also very busy to prepare pork, chickens, ducks, and fish at home.
There's no rush to buy it after the kids come back.
In 1987, there were not many changes in the New Year's greetings.
Basically it's just a bag of white sugar. If you have a better relationship, you can add a bag of milk candy, or a bottle of wine.
Qiao Xiazhi and the others are back. Even though there aren’t that many relatives leaving, they still have to buy a lot of sugar.
Anyway, whatever you can’t use up can be kept for yourself to eat later.
And if you give it to other people, they will almost certainly give some back to you in the end.
There is a joke in the real world that a box of milk is returned to you after you give it to me, I give it to him, he gives it to her, and she gives it to you. After the New Year's greetings are over, the box of milk is back in your hands.
I bought some cigarettes, alcohol, and candy, and the rest was for my family to eat.
Melon seeds, peanuts, and loose candy. This year, watermelon seeds can still be seen in this town, so Qiao Xiazhi bought a bag of plum-flavored watermelon seeds.
They brought the fruit when they came back, so there was no need to buy it.
In addition, the children also like to eat spicy strips and the like. At that time, there was no technology and hard work. Qiao Xiazhi and his friends also liked to eat them, so they bought a lot of them.
I also bought a lot of happy water.
Finally, there are red envelopes, red cloth and the like.
After buying a lot of things, both cars were filled to the brim.
Having money makes me happy when I spend it.
If you don't have much money, you don't like the Chinese New Year very much, because when the Chinese New Year comes, all the money you have saved hard throughout the year will be gone in an instant.
Qiao Xiazhi and the others don't care about this, they just want to have fun.
That’s it, let’s go home.
There were no plans for the afternoon. Qiao Daguo went to Qiao's great aunt's house to deliver money. Once the money was delivered, the mission was completed. The family's plan for the afternoon was to continue entertainment.
After buying everything, we started eating and drinking while having fun.
Little happiness is so simple and satisfying.
After a busy year, it's a rare opportunity for the whole family to have a rest, so naturally we should do whatever we want to make ourselves comfortable.
It started snowing heavily on the third day after we came back.
When we got up in the morning, the whole team was covered with a thick layer of silver.
The children were so happy.
We ran into the wheat field and started rolling around and having snowball fights.
Qiao Xiazhi and his friends did not fall behind and joined the snowball fight.
In the end, the children were divided into one team and the adults were divided into another team, and the fight was very intense.
Qiao Xiazhi took out his camera and asked Fang Mei to help take more pictures of the scene.
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