"It really goes by so fast, in the blink of an eye."
Sun Jiaxue said with a smile.
"Wife, the New Year is coming soon. Please make a new dress for our daughter. Here are two pieces of cloth. One piece of cloth is for you to make a new dress for yourself."
"I don't lack clothes, I'll just make some for my daughter."
"New clothes are worn during the New Year. Since there is no shortage of cloth, make yourself a new dress."
Li Mingqing took out a bag of cotton and made a new cotton-padded jacket to wear warmly.
The villagers are busy steaming buns, rice cakes and preparing for the New Year.
Especially after the new big-character posters were posted, the village was filled with joy.
However, there are also discordant voices.
It is a custom not to collect debts on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which makes New Year’s Eve a “debt collection day”.
Don’t be in debt for more than a year.
It is common sense that debts should be settled by the end of the year.
Some people really can't pay off their debts and can only stay at home.
Li Goudan is the person being collected for debt.
He had previously gone to the next village to borrow ten yuan from a young man he knew.
I have borrowed money for more than half a year but I still haven't paid it back.
The young man came to ask for money as Chinese New Year was approaching.
"Li Goudan, your village has a bumper harvest this year, and it's really unacceptable that you don't pay me back. I used to treat you like a good brother, but now you owe me money and refuse to pay it back."
"Brother, give me a few more days, I will definitely pay it back after the New Year."
"That's what you said a few days ago. I lent you money for medical treatment out of pity for your injury, but you're so ungrateful."
Li Goudan argued and pointed at the stove made of mud.
"Look at what kind of life I live. I eat tofu dregs mixed with wild vegetables. If you want something, go ask my parents for it. I really don't have any money."
"Are you talking like a human being? If you don't pay us, we'll just have to move the food."
The young man brought five or six young men from the village to help.
Several people were huddled together to move the only two bags of food in the house.
Liu Xiang stood in front of him and said, "The family can't survive the past year. Let's pay the debt next year. Next year, I will definitely pay it back next year."
"Next year will be the same as the past few years for your family. There's no hope."
The debt collector pulled Liu Xiang aside and was about to move the food.
Li Goudan originally wanted to get away with it, but he didn't expect that several people actually carried the food out.
He went to the county town to sell the rest of the grain two days ago.
I sold it for about twenty dollars, thinking of saving enough money to renovate the house.
Now it seems there is no escape.
I could only bear the pain and pay the ten dollars back to him.
The people in Lijia Village didn't know about this and they all gathered in the street waiting to be divided into pork and pig blood soup.
It is particularly comfortable to drink a bowl of hot pig blood soup in such a cold day.
Li Mingqing also came to watch the fun like his fellow villagers.
Everyone's face was filled with smiles. After working hard for a year, they were looking forward to the two days of leisure during the New Year.
When the village chief saw the people going to Li Goudan to collect debts, he thought they were here to steal things. But when he saw that they were a few young men from the neighboring village, he breathed a sigh of relief.
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