Three melons and two dates

Chapter 40: Getting rid of the old year and welcoming the new year

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the fourth day after Jiyuan left, every household was busy preparing for the new year. In the past, they were busy with Li Cuicui's book inkstone, and now they are sitting in the yard with Xie Huanxiu in a daze.

Both of them were wearing thick cotton clothes and cotton hats, and they sat curled up on the ponytails. From a distance, they looked like Fuwas in two large New Year pictures, but their expressions were not so happy.

Shuyan looked in the direction of Wang Ahua's house, his eyes were dull and he didn't know what he was thinking.

And Xie Huanxiu, who was sitting at the side in a daze, came back to see Shuyan who was in a daze, and started staring at him to see when he would notice him.

"Thinking of Wang Ahua?"

Xie Huanxiu was afraid that Shuyan would not notice him if he stared through the wall in front of him, so he asked.

"Yeah, I don't know how she is going to spend the New Year outside, okay..." Before he could say the word worry, he suddenly realized that he was talking to Xie Huanxiu, so he quickly shut up, and carefully glanced at Xie Huanxiu.

"You like her that much?"

Xie Huanxiu's complexion was not pretty, but it was rare that he didn't lose his temper.

"It's not... just..."

Xie Huanxiu fully understood what Shuyan didn't say.Wang Ahua grew up with them, and Shuyan is a person who values ​​affection. Although there is no affection between men and women, affection is different after all, so he cares.

Seeing that the new year is over, Xie Huanxiu's mood has been depressed by Ji Yuan's departure, he doesn't want Shu Yan to be depressed through this year.

"Actually, I said that Wang Ahua was sold, but I just said it in a moment of anger. I asked my mother to be the matchmaker. She married far away. The other party is very nice and has a rich family. Ahua won't suffer when she gets married. Don't worry too much. .”

Shuyan let out a low voice, then paused and said, "I know, I've always known, you won't sell Ah Hua, and my aunt won't agree... Tianguan, I can ask..."

"Can't!"

Xie Huanxiu got up abruptly and entered the room without looking back.

It's not that Shu Yan doesn't believe what he said, but he wants to see it with his own eyes before he can rest assured.In any case, the matter of Ah Hua's far-off marriage was ultimately caused by him, so I can't rest assured if I haven't seen him with my own eyes.

It wasn't until Li Cuicui called him to finish the meal that Shuyan dragged his frozen body into the room.

Xie Huanxiu glanced at him, secretly hated, "It deserves it!" Then he put Pozi Tang into his arms.

Li Cuicui looked at Shu Yan's face flushed from the cold, "You silly boy, let you rest and run outside to freeze. What's so nice about being naked outside? Look at you."

Xie Jiu looked at his son, then at the inkstone, and finally turned to Xie Huanxiu, and asked, "Didn't you let the dog stay outside and not enter the house?"

"No, it's me." Shuyan hurriedly explained.

"Really?" The Xie family didn't believe it.

"Father, mother!"

"Hehe, haha, let's eat and eat."

Seeing their son's change of face, the Xie family quickly changed the subject.After recovering, Shu Yan also put down Mrs. Tang in his hand, and imitated Xie's couple to eat with their heads down.

Xie Huanxiu looked at the three people in front of him and decided to eat too!

He's not Shu Yan's fool, why is he hungry and making trouble with himself.

Shuyan didn't mention Wang Ahua's question again, so Xie Huanxiu naturally wouldn't bring it up either, and the two lived in peace until New Year's Eve.

Before the New Year's Eve dinner, the two went out to set off firecrackers to get rid of the old year.

Shu Yan arranged the firecrackers and handed the fire folder to Xie Huanxiu.He took the firecracker and was not in a hurry to light the firecrackers, but asked Shuyan, "Is there anything you want to do next year?"

Xie Huanxiu's question was very sudden. For so many years, Xie Huanxiu had been doing what he was doing, and what he was doing with him, but he had never thought about what he wanted to do or what he wanted to do.

Therefore, Shu Yan couldn't answer Xie Huanxiu's question for a while.

Xie Huanxiu looked at Shuyan's dumbfounded look, and said with a smile, "I think..."

A series of crackling firecrackers overwhelmed Xie Huanxiu's voice, and Shuyan shouted, "What are you talking about, Tianguan? I can't hear you louder."

"Say you're stupid."

The sound of firecrackers became higher and higher, Shuyan still couldn't hear what Xie Huanxiu was talking about, but he understood.

He muttered in a low voice, "If you call him stupid just after Chinese New Year, he will be stupid in the new year."

Shuyan signaled Xie Huanxiu to light firecrackers quickly, so he could go back to eat dumplings.

Xie Huanxiu was also disturbed by the sound of firecrackers, so he stopped arguing with the bookend and ran into the room with the bookend after lighting the firecrackers. The family had a lively New Year's Eve dinner to welcome the New Year.

New Year's Day, the first day of the new year.

Xie Huanxiu and Shuyan were sent out to pay New Year's greetings from house to house.The Xie family stayed at home, waiting for the children from the neighbors to come to pay New Year's greetings.

On the way to the township head's house, Shuyan remembered Xie Huanxiu was buried by firecrackers yesterday and couldn't hear his words clearly, and asked, "What do you want to do this year?"

"What to do to tell you."

Shuyan was stunned, "Didn't you want to tell me last night?"

"You also said it was last night, I changed my mind, okay?"

Seeing Shuyan's shriveled face that dared not speak out, Xie Huanxiu started to tease him, and probably stabbed him, "What do you look like on the first day of the new year with a sad face? He pays New Year's greetings, it's bad luck for him."

What is "the villain first sues", Shuyan has fully learned.What Xie Huanxiu said was reasonable, he stopped in his tracks, tried to adjust his mood, seeing Xie Huanxiu smiling at him so annoyed, he became even more furious, and really wanted to pull him over and beat him up.

Xie Huanxiu, on the other hand, was in a good mood, and swept away the resentment of being called up before he woke up, "Hurry up, let's go to the village chief's house to pay New Year's greetings, and if we delay, we will delay going to other houses for New Year's greetings."

As he said that, he went to pull Shuyan's hand, but he didn't.

"Let's go, I'll tell you in two days."

"Really?"

"You actually doubt my words." Xie Huanxiu's expression was serious, staring at Shuyan.

"Let's go, let's go to New Year's greetings, didn't you say it's too late?"

The two of them didn't quarrel, they talked and laughed all the way and went from house to house to pay New Year's greetings.

At the end of the day, the red envelopes of the two of them were not short, but they didn't have a few copper coins. Xie Huanxiu's family was rich since he was a child, and there was never a shortage of money. Naturally, he didn't take these things seriously, but Shuyan was very happy.

"It's less than half a penny, so you have to be happy like this?"

It is true that there are not many copper coins, and Shuyan is happy to be the prize, ignoring Xie Huanxiu's ridicule, he is happy for himself.

Xie Huanxiu took out a red purse that was full of joy from his bosom, and threw it to Shu Yan, "Idiot, catch it."

Shuyan didn't see clearly what he threw over, so he subconsciously went to pick it up, and found it was a purse, and when he opened it, it was a shiny ingot of silver ingot, he weighed it and weighed it.

"Tianguan, this is too heavy for you, so don't need it." Shuyan said, and was about to return it to Xie Huanxiu.

"Hold it!" Xie Huanxiu pressed Shuyan's hand, "It is said that 'life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten', but there is also a saying that 'foolish people have stupid blessings', so Shuyan, you will be perfect in the new year."

Just as Shuyan was about to speak, Xie Huanxiu snatched him away, "Don't refuse, accept it!"

"Okay, thank you Tianguan! I also have something for you."

"what gift?"

For many years, Shuyan has always taken good care of Xie Huanxiu, but it was the first time he mentioned that he would give him a gift, how could he not be curious.

Shuyan first stuffed the purse given by Xie Huanxiu into his bosom properly, and at the same time took out two small yellow gadgets the size of a baby's fist from his bosom.

When Xie Huanxiu received it, he realized that it turned out to be two carved wooden persimmons.

"You carved it yourself?"

"Ok!"

Xie Huanxiu carefully looked at the two persimmons in his hand. He never knew that Shuyan had this craft, and he probably had been in touch behind his back for a long time.

The two small persimmons are not only carved round and full, but also meticulously colored, which is really lifelike.

"Why did you give me two persimmons?" Xie Huanxiu asked Shuyan with a smile.

"I hope that everything goes well with the Heavenly Official."