Shangqiaotou Village, Qiaotou Town

After sweeping the yard, Hong Sheng went to help two old people in the village sweep the roof, because the young people in the family were not there, and it was inconvenient for the old people to go on the roof; On the snowdrifts piled in the vegetable field, there is a big ball, and there are two small balls on the big ball, two black charcoals are inlaid on the small ball, and there is a horizontal strip of red cloth underneath, like this There are three balls, which are gradually smaller; the second is a blue cloth strip, and the third is actually the lid on a can.When hearing the courtyard door open, it was Hei Bei who rushed over first, and then Le Sheng who ran out, and Le Sheng pulled him towards the vegetable garden as if offering a treasure.

"Hong Sheng, our family!"

Only now did Hong Sheng realize that the ball looked like a smiling face.

"Hong Sheng, the older one is you, the one in the middle is me, and the one next to it is Heibei!"

Hong Sheng smiled and asked teasingly,

"Why (what do you mean) Hei Bei's mouth is a bottle cap?"

"Is Heibei's mouth bigger than ours!"

In the morning, Hong Sheng boiled two eggs. He ate the leftovers from yesterday. He cooked some bran bibimbap for Hei Bei. He went to the town; Lesheng ate one, and on the second said,

"Hong Sheng, are we alone?"

"I'm eating!"

"Then you eat one too, the eggs are delicious!"

"I'll give you all the delicious food!"

"It's delicious, even Hong Sheng wants to eat it!"

The day after tomorrow, the two gave way, until Hong Sheng took a bite of the egg white, and Le Sheng agreed to eat the rest of the egg yolk!

After breakfast and resting for a while, Hong Sheng took Le Sheng, and Le Sheng took his Hei Bei, and the family went to town; Holding Heibei in his arms, people passing by were curious, and some laughed and said,

"This young man is really interesting, the dog still carried him away!"

"Old tofu, Ma Yeer (fried dough sticks) old tofu~"

"The fruit costs two yuan a bag, two yuan a bag!"

"Ma Tang Ma Tang~"

The hawkers were shouting louder than the other, and the town before the Spring Festival was very lively.Hong Sheng took Le Sheng to find a stall of old tofu with mochi leaves and sat down. He ordered a bowl of tofu and two sticks of tofu.

"Hong Sheng, it's delicious!"

Hong Sheng smiled dotingly, raised his hand to help him pluck the coriander leaves from the corner of his mouth, and said,

"Eat it as soon as it's delicious!"

Le Sheng drank two mouthfuls of old tofu and took a bite of hemp leaf. Before Hong Sheng's bowl was served, he asked,

"Hong Sheng, is it yours?"

"I ate too much noodles at home, and I'm not hungry yet!"

Le Sheng took a spoonful, put it near Hong Sheng's mouth, and said,

"Hong Sheng, try it!"

Hong Sheng smiled and took a sip and said,

"Well, it's delicious, hurry up and eat it!"

Le Sheng pulled another hemp leaf, brought it to Hong Sheng's lips, and said,

"This one is delicious too!"

Hong Sheng couldn't push it, so he could only open his mouth with a smile; he didn't expect Le Sheng to be fed one bite at a time. He looked at the two of them and asked,

"Is this your brother?"

Hong Sheng smiled and said,

"Well, my brother!"

"It's great to see you two brothers being affectionate!"

Hong Sheng laughed again.

On this trip to town, the two bought pork, candy, and vegetables for the New Year. They didn’t plan to buy New Year pictures. The one posted at home has only been hanging for three years. It’s still like new after being wiped, but look at it Le Sheng next to him, Hong Sheng felt that he should buy a new one for auspiciousness. With Le Sheng, their life would be new; the New Year picture was picked by Le Sheng, a pair of landscape paintings; After the sick daughter-in-law left, Wang Sheng's year alone was like a thunderous sound, "boom" - "beep", and the old bachelor Hong Sheng's year was over; but this year is different, this year Hong Sheng He is still a bachelor, but he has Le Sheng and Hei Bei, so he can't say anything this year; he bought a new suit for Le Sheng from the inside out, and also bought a new one for him. Fluffy rabbit fur earmuffs, a bright red woolen scarf; these two things are the first time for Hong Sheng, who has lived for 30 years, and Hong Sheng's winter, a cotton Lei Feng hat is enough, Sometimes the cotton wool was turned out, and Hong Sheng was lazy to sew it, just like his life alone, just let it go; It was involuntary, and Hong Sheng felt happy from the bottom of his heart when he saw the other party dressed up like a young master; the color of the woolen scarf was chosen by Le Sheng himself, and the stall owner reminded him at the time,

"This is a women's scarf!"

Le Sheng held it in his hand and was reluctant to put it down. He glanced at Hong Sheng and then again, and Hong Sheng said,

"Forget it, don't care if he's a man or a woman, as long as you see (like) it!"

Facts have proved that Le Sheng wears it really good-looking. Wearing fluffy earmuffs and a big red scarf around it reveals a pair of big talking eyes. Le Sheng is more handsome than every girl and daughter-in-law in Qiaotou Village.In the end, Hong Sheng only bought a coat for himself, and the two of them came back with a dog.Along the way, creaking and stepping on the thick snowflakes, the black Heibei Le went crazy, jumping from left to right, and Lesheng wearing a red scarf would chase after it for a while, and then run back to pull Hong Health, giggles made the journey of ten miles joyful and short.

Passing by a forest during the period, Hei Bei rushed in, and didn't see him for a long time. Le Sheng yelled twice at the side, and suddenly heard Hei Bei screaming "Wow", and saw a gray thing the same size as Hei Bei rushing out. , jumping up and down, probably because he was a little anxious when turning, the gray thing slid and fell to the ground. It was a little bigger, and when it turned over, its hind hoof kicked Hei Bei fiercely. The puppy rolled over twice screaming and screaming, with a bunch of gray hair in its mouth. When it turned around, the gray thing Get up early and disappear;

In fact, when Hong Sheng saw the gray thing coming out, he dropped the thing in his hand and yelled,

"Lesheng, rabbit!"

In the end, before he ran over, their Hei Bei was defeated; Le Sheng felt sorry for his Hei Bei, so he ran over and hugged his Hei Bei while plucking his mouth hair, saying,

"Does it hurt, Hei Bei?"

Hong Sheng picked up the thing again and said with a smile,

"This little thing is quite sloppy, it will catch rabbits at such a young age, haha...it's promising!"

Hei Bei struggled twice in Le Sheng's arms, and was put on the ground again. He continued to search for the rabbit's footprints, sniffing left, smelling right, and sniffing right; they didn't run wildly to catch up until they walked a certain distance!When I went back, it was almost sunset; this was the most extravagant year Wang Sheng had ever lived, but it was also the happiest;

Every family is busy in the twelfth lunar month. On the 23rd, "Grandpa Stove King went to the sky", this is called sending the gods away. When the gods are sent away, there is a sound of thunder, and Hong Sheng's house starts to clean; take down the old New Year pictures and wipe them clean I'm going to stick it in the utility room. I compared the new New Year pictures with them. The size is just right. However, after this comparison, Hong Sheng felt that the black and yellow black and yellow on the walls of his house were too smoky. The painting was gone, so I borrowed a bicycle, ran around the town, and bought a bag of wall powder.

When I came back, I went into the yard and found that their quilts, kang mats, and mats had been drying the yard; He rubbed his dirty clothes on the washboard, which he learned from Hong Sheng, but he couldn't rub his clothes on the washboard, so he just rubbed his hands on the board. It was bright red; when Hong Sheng touched it, the water was cold, and he grabbed his red hand, feeling relieved and distressed at the same time; his heart was sore and satisfied, no one had ever made him experience this feeling, never !

"Look, the handle is red from the cold, next time you wash it, you need to add hot water, do you understand?"

"understood!"

Hong Sheng dragged the man into the room distressedly, wrapped the other's cold hands in his own, rubbed them and asked,

"Does your hand hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt!"

After speaking, he gave Hong Sheng a sweet smile, and Hong Sheng's heart melted instantly.He took a piece of dried persimmon and fed it to Le Sheng's mouth. The other party took a bite, his eyes lit up, and he said happily,

"It's delicious, what is this (meaning: what)?"

"Persimmon, isn't it delicious?"

"Delicious! You can eat it too!" As he spoke, he brought the half he had bitten to Hong Sheng's mouth, and the two of them took one bite at a time. After eating, Hong Sheng felt that this year's persimmon cake was so delicious!

As if offering a treasure, he took out another bag of sesame candies, some one by one, and another by one. Le Sheng took out one and fed it to Hong Sheng, ate it himself, and also fed Hei Bei one. Heibei probably had his teeth stuck to his food, he turned his head and licked his mouth non-stop, making Le Sheng laugh again.

On Thirty's Day, Hong Sheng looked at his "brand new" home, and the person and dog next to him, and tears fell uncontrollably. When Le Sheng saw it, he wiped it with his fingers. Sheng was a little embarrassed, stretched out his hand to wipe his face, forced a smile and said,

"I'm fine, ah, I'm just happy! I haven't been this happy in years!"

After listening to Le Sheng, he didn't speak, his hands gently wrapped around his waist, and put his face on his chest; Hong Sheng's tears suddenly couldn't stop, and he hugged Le Sheng tightly. After so many years, he lost his mother. The pain of not having a father, the pain of grandparents leaving one after another, the pain of being alone at the age of 15 and being the head of the family, the pain of finally marrying a daughter-in-law, but being cheated, the daughter-in-law can see and not touch She was seriously ill and had to empty herself of her own suffering; Hong Sheng really couldn't bear it, he didn't earn this business by himself, it was saved for him by his parents who died early and got up early and worked late. His poor grandparents saved it for him; but he can't just watch the girl die like that, if that happens, he will feel guilty for the rest of his life, anyway, her natal family doesn't want her, she is her own Daughter-in-law; so when he sold his last donkey, when he looked at the house with four walls in front of him, and then faced the death of the girl, he was calm, yes, he tried his best, tried his best !I can't talk about that kind of suffering, and I don't know who to tell; I thought that after the girl died, he could still be born again, but as a result, he was alone, and this person suffered another six years until Le Sheng appeared.

Others said that Le Sheng is a fool, he doesn't care, he thought at the time, just as if he had a puppy to accompany him, but he didn't expect that Le Sheng brought him surprises one after another, one after another Yes, it filled his life.

Thirty children ate dumplings, and the two fell asleep while chatting; Hong Sheng woke up when he heard the first thunderstorm on the first day of the new year. This is a custom in the village, get up early at 04:30 At the age of [-], the cannons started to fire. At this time, it was called Jieshen, and it was necessary to light the fire; the confused Le Sheng was called out, and the two of them washed their faces, and then they started to receive the gods and light the fire; this year's Wanghuo Hongsheng The building was tall and big, and the flames were almost rushing through the roof; Le Sheng was very happy, and then added firewood (meaning to increase wealth), and set off fireworks. No matter how brave Hei Bei was, he still couldn't change the fear of dogs. The nature of fire, hiding in the room, unable to come out alive.

At six o'clock, there are already little dolls coming to pay New Year's greetings, and the younger ones will carry a bag, and they will go from house to house, and they will make a round of worship, such as sugar, peanuts, black dates, walnuts, and so on. I got a half bag, and sometimes I had to compare it to see who had the most, and I was happy with the more, and I was also happy with the less; I took it home, picked out my favorite toffee, and saved the candies one by one. Fun for kids.

When the children come, ask first,

"Happy New Year, Uncle Hong Sheng!" Hong Sheng's family is young, and there are not many uncles, and most of them are called "Brother Hong Sheng". Le; Le Sheng also smiled at them, grabbed a lot of candies, and then grabbed a lot of peanuts, and after filling the peanuts, he grabbed a lot of dried apricots for them, and gave each of them a sesame candy; Life is fine, whoever sends dumplings to whom is always counted, and the Chinese New Year is no exception. Adults give candy or peanuts, don’t look at it, they will know it in their hearts. There are only five at most, usually two or three; peanuts are things that grow in the ground, it is not uncommon, you can catch eight or nine, this is already considered close relatives, as "generous" as Le Sheng, the children are still the first See you later; Hong Sheng didn't say anything, just looked at Le Shengzhuo with a smile on his face, and looked at the children's flattered look, Hong Sheng said,

"This is Brother Le Sheng!"

The children grinned and said with a smile,

"Brother Lesheng, Happy New Year!"

Le Sheng also smiled and said,

"Happy New Year to you too!"

It is also the first time for children to hear an adult say Happy New Year to them. Generally, adults will say, "Good, good!" If they are more intimate, they will say, "My baby is also good!", and this "Happy New Year!" They think I didn’t hear it until I grew up to be the same age as my parents. As a result, after hearing what Lesheng said, I went out excitedly chattering; when I went out, I met other children and would publicize it;

"The idiot of Hong Sheng's family, he gave you a lot of candy, and there is also a sesame candy, but if you call him Brother Le Sheng, he will still say happy new year to you!"

So, this year, all the children in the village seem to come to Hong Sheng's house to pay New Year's greetings. Besides wanting to get a lot of candy and a sesame candy, they also want to see what the idiot will be like after he becomes "Brother Le Sheng". What is it like to say "Happy Chinese New Year!"!

Hong Sheng also bought a lot of sugar this year. Originally, he planned to let Le Sheng eat it until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after the children in the village finished their New Year's greetings. There are only a dozen or so pitiful candies left in their candy trays; the dried apricots are all distributed, and the sesame candies are almost all distributed; the last few children who came to pay New Year's greetings, Le Sheng also told others,

"Xing'er has finished sending out, I will prepare more for you next year!"

The child was even happier when he heard it, because he got an extra sesame candy.