A young educated youth who repays his gratitude

"How many steel coins do you put?"

When making big dumplings at night, Bai Lele actively took out a handful of steel coins and picked inside, "Six, six or six will go well."

"It's up to you." Huo Changqing laughed, "You're quite superstitious."

"No way." Bai Lele refused to admit it, and retorted: "Isn't every family like this."

These are customs passed down from generation to generation and have nothing to do with superstition, but just to get a good start.

It's like putting steel into dumplings. Whoever can eat it is a sign of good luck and wealth next year, which makes everyone happy.

"I'll go wash." Bai Lele took six steel coins and muttered modestly: "Even if my stomach is full today, I still have to eat one."

"You don't have to eat." Huo Changqing said helplessly, "There are six of them, how can I eat one?"

"That's not necessarily true." Bai Lele raised her chin and said proudly: "There are eight people in our dormitory, and I am the only one who can eat steel coins every year."

"Also..." Bai Lele squinted her eyes, and smiled proudly, "Students who stayed at school and didn't go home for the New Year, and those who knew each other got together to celebrate the New Year, and there were only two or three of the dozen or so of them who could eat , I am one of them every year.”

Those were steel coins placed according to the head, but many people couldn't eat any of them, but Bai Lele could always eat a few.

Huo Changqing: "..."

He never did this kind of thing, but Bai Lele didn't stop him if he liked it, and simply let him jump around.

Just be happy.

Bai Lele came back after washing the steel irons, and helped roll out the dumpling wrappers, "I've also learned how to make dumplings. When I roll out more, we'll make dumplings together."

He thought well, but the reality was a slap in the face, Huo Changqing made dumplings very fast.

Bai Lele, who only had the opportunity to make dumpling wrappers once every year during the Chinese New Year, almost couldn't afford Huo Changqing.

He was a little embarrassed and felt that he was talking big, but he thought confidently: I just can't compare with Huo Changqing in my work, and I can't take it for granted that I can't pay him.

So he smiled again, and said cheerfully, "Oh! I want to pack it for you, but you should slow down."

"One rolled skin, one bag." Huo Changqing kept his hands on, looked at Bai Lele and said, "Isn't it just right?"

"Yes." Bai Lele felt that it made sense, nodded happily and said, "We cooperate with each other, this is just right."

He looked at Baowa who was sitting on the side, the little guy was obediently playing by himself, neither making noise nor making trouble.

"Bao Wa'er is so good!" Bai Lele sighed, "I've never seen him play like crazy. He's much better than those mischievous brats."

"He likes to follow me." Huo Changqing said: "Every year Changping and the others go out to play, he never goes and just sits next to me."

He looked at the well-behaved and quiet Baowa, and then at the happy and smiling Bai Lele, feeling warm in his heart.

Another satisfaction arises.

No matter how lively it is outside, the big and the young are willing to stay by his side, giving him a feeling that they are enough to have themselves.

Under the warm yellow light, on the warm kang, there were two figures, two big, one small, and three figures.

Bai Lele sat on the edge of the kang with his head bowed and rolled the dough, Huo Changqing sat on the other side making dumplings, and Bao Wa'er snuggled up beside Huo Changqing.

Like a family of three.

Bai Lele rolled out the dumpling wrappers, her mouth was not idle, she talked to Huo Changqing, and teased Bao Wa'er again.

After ten o'clock, the dumplings were made, and two curtains were left to eat later, and the rest were put outside to freeze.

Save it for the first day of the new year tomorrow.

At this moment, Changping and the others also came back, and Changan ran ahead chattering, and shouted when they entered the room: "Brother, how long do you have to cook the dumplings?"

"It's coming soon." Bai Lele said, "I'm watching the time."

He asked Huo Changqing: "The brigade should wait for the brigade leader to broadcast the loudspeaker announcement before firing the cannon and eating dumplings?"

"Yeah." Huo Changqing nodded, "Not many have watches, so who knows what time it is before we notify you."

The custom here is: you must set off firecrackers and eat dumplings at twelve o'clock, and you can't be sloppy when you say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

Bai Lele blinked, turned her big smart eyes, looked at Huo Changqing with a smile, and said briskly: "Are we going to grab a good fortune? After the reform and opening up, everyone rushed to get rich first, so let's take the lead Bar?"

"It's up to you." Huo Changqing didn't care, he could do whatever he wanted, "Just as long as you want."

"Okay." Bai Lele immediately took off the watch from his wrist, held it in his hand and stared at it, "I'll tell you what to do in time."

He muttered in his mouth to calculate the time, he was very busy, he asked Huo Changqing to boil water for a while, and let him cook dumplings for a while.

Chang'an and the others cooperated obediently, placing tables, setting up dishes and chopsticks, and hanging firecrackers, and they were absolutely unambiguous in every order.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and it was time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Following Bai Lele's order, the firecrackers were lit outside, and "crackling" resounded through the sky.

"Eat dumplings." Changan ran in bluffing, and said happily, "Our firecrackers were the first to go off."

"That is." Bai Lele said happily, "I'm counting the time." "

In order to be the first, he asked Chang'an to light the firecrackers 2 minutes in advance, and the dumplings were also the first to eat.

"Hmm." Bai Lele held a steel coin in his mouth, his eyes sparkled with excitement, "I got it."

"Bada." He spat out the steel coin in his mouth, looked at it, and said happily, "Two cents!"

He put three one-cent coins, two two-cent coins, and one five-cent coin, for a total of six coins.

After only eating three dumplings, Bai Lele opened a two-point steel coin. He said excitedly, "I...my fortune this year will definitely be better."

He turned his head to look at Huo Changqing, and urged: "Hurry up, eat quickly, and see how much you can eat, and how many cents it is."

After Bai Lele finished speaking, she picked up a dumpling first, and stuffed it into her mouth with a gulp.

In the blink of an eye, a plate of dumplings was finished, Bai Lele was dumbfounded, staring blankly at the steel coin she ate.

"One, two, three..." He counted three times in a row, and looked up in disbelief, "Six, all six... let me eat all of them?"

"Yeah." Huo Changqing looked around and nodded with a serious face, "Six, one is a lot, Lele has made a fortune."

"Oh——" Bai Lele was so excited that she picked up the steel coins and looked at them one by one, "I, I have such good luck this year, I will definitely make a fortune."

"Hic." Chang An covered his mouth, but he still didn't stop the hiccups from coming out. He looked at Bai Lele with resentful eyes, "Brother Lele, I've eaten so much that I didn't even eat a steel coin. So it's all at your place."

He heard Bai Lele say: There are steel coins in the dumplings, whoever eats them will be blessed by the God of Wealth and have good luck for a year.

Chang An wished he could pour all the dumplings into his stomach at once, but in the end, he was so full that he didn't even have a single one. Instead, Bai Lele ate them all.

"Hi!" Bai Lele was a little embarrassed, and said angrily to Huo Changqing, "How did you get the dumplings? Why are all the dumplings wrapped in steel on my plate?"

He was looking forward to Huo Changqing eating a few steel coins to make him happy and be more active in life, but he didn't expect to eat all of them.

"It's your good luck and wealth." Huo Changqing said unhurriedly: "Naturally, it will all go into your bowl. I don't know which dumpling to wrap it in, how can I stop it."

"That's right." Bai Lele nodded, and said cheerfully, "I'm just lucky, I knew it a long time ago."

Otherwise, how could he come to the Linjiang brigade and meet Huo Changqing, who treats him well and treats him like a family member!

"You are my nobleman." Bai Lele thought for a while and then said, "Since I met you, I have been going smoothly and my wishes always come true."

Huo Changqing: "..."

He didn't reply to this, if he said no, Bai Lele would definitely fight for it.

Huo Changqing thinks it's better to stop talking.

Chang'an was still chattering, sometimes saying that there were too few steel dumplings, and sometimes saying that the dumplings should not be eaten in separate plates.

They should be put in a big basin, put them all together, and they won't all go into Bai Lele's mouth alone.

After being glanced at by Huo Changqing expressionlessly, he immediately acted like a quail honestly, not daring to mutter a word.

Chang Ping quietly ate the dumplings on his plate, at this moment he looked up at Huo Changqing, then at Bai Lele.

Glancing at Chang'an for the last time, the corners of his mouth curled up indistinctly: It would be strange if this could be eaten by others, wouldn't he be mindful of the dumplings made by elder brother? !

……

Time passed, and on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Bai Lele hurried out after breakfast.

Before I finished cleaning up, I heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, and the cheerful suona horn rang non-stop.

There were bursts of applause.

"It started so early?" Bai Lele looked at the time in surprise, "It's only after eight o'clock."

He was wearing a light blue casual padded jacket, a white fur collar, and a red woolen cap on his head, with a big red quivering furry ball on the top.

Bai Lele looked in the mirror and put a red scarf around herself, reflecting her little face flushed.

Childish and cute.

"It looks good." He looked left and right for a long time, and then ran to Huo Changqing to show him, "Is it good?"

Huo Changqing: "..."

Looking at the redness in front of her eyes, wrapped in a white and delicate face, she raised her head and looked at herself with a smile.

Huo Changqing swallowed involuntarily, and moved his eyes away from those bright red lips reluctantly, "It looks good."

"You wear the dress I bought for you." Bai Lele said, "It's the same style as mine. It must look good on you."

"I'd better wear this one for myself." Huo Changqing said, "I have to hold Baowa, and it will get dirty in a while."

Huo Changqing was reluctant to spoil the new clothes Bai Lele bought for him.

"But..." Bai Lele pursed her lips, blinked her eyes, and suddenly smiled, "Okay, just wear your own."

He looked at Huo Changqing's dark blue casual jacket, double-breasted plain cotton jacket, black trousers, and a pair of corduroy cotton shoes.

It feels rustic.

But looking at Baowa in his arms, he thought what Huo Changqing said was reasonable, so he said generously: "Well, you can wear whatever you like for Baowa."

As Bai Lele said, she tilted her head, looked at Huo Changqing from top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, her eyes finally fell on Huo Changqing's face.

"Anyway, you look good in anything."

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