Because today is the New Year's Eve, the night is to celebrate the New Year's Eve. Mrs. Wang started to make dough dumplings, Mrs. Sun was helping to chop the meat filling, and the three sisters-in-law also chopped a few Chinese cabbages, preparing to wrap the cabbage and pork filling in the evening.
They were busy until it was almost dark, and they wrapped several hundred dumplings. Not to mention the large population of the Xu family, coupled with the huge amount of Xu Dabo's brothers, they wrapped so many dumplings that seemed to be just the right amount.
Cover the wrapped dumplings with gauze, put them outside to freeze, and just boil water to cook the dumplings tomorrow.
The family lit a stove in the front hall, closed the doors and windows, and the room was warm. Mr. Xu and Mr. Lin started playing backgammon again.
The women were all sitting together chatting, cracking melon seeds in their mouths, chatting and laughing, they felt comfortable, and they suddenly felt that the night was not so boring.
My brother and the others were also picking up books and reading. Although the college had about ten days off due to the Chinese New Year, the studies assigned by the Master still had to be completed on time.
Only Xiaoliu has nothing to do, either poking this or pounding that, Xiaoba took a detour when he saw him. After being glared at by his elder brother, he calmed down, but he still felt bored.
Qibao thought for a while and took out a little book from the past life. It mainly talked about some myths and legends.
Handing the book to Sixth Brother, she instructed: "Sixth Brother, don't take this book out, just read it at home."
Xiaoliu saw that his sister gave him a book with a colorful character drawn on it, and was instantly interested, he wouldn't have wanted to read it if it was a normal book.
Taking the book in his hand, he opened it and looked at it. He saw characters flying in the sky and various strange animals. His eyes were immediately attracted.
Seeing that Sixth Brother was quiet at noon, Qibao went back to her room, and the two white wolves followed quietly with lighter footsteps.
Qibao brought two white wolves into the space. When the two little white wolves saw Bai Shuang Bai Xue, they came forward to get close to each other happily. The little white wolves had grown up a lot, and their fur was as shiny as snow, as if it could shine. Even though they were still a minor, she could see the trend of being majestic and the king of beasts in the future.
Qibao entered the villa and found Xiaoling with his eyes closed and his forehead shining with white light like last time. He was probably practicing the forbidden method he learned last time.
Qibao didn't bother, went up to the second floor, entered the room full of clothes, opened the drawer and looked at the jade stones, and picked a piece of fine white jade with tight flesh and warm color.
She planned to use this jade to carve several jade pendants, one for each of her brothers, as her first New Year's gift.
She took out the carving knife and started carving. Although she had seen others carving in her previous life, she had never done it before. However, spiritual power was a good thing. She had already practiced her physical and spiritual power to the point where she was very proficient in it and could use it freely to carve a few pieces of jade pendants!
Qibao was very careful. She planned to make a round jade pendant engraved with an orchid pattern, and then engraved one character of each her brother's name in the middle.
Although there is the help of spiritual power, if a person concentrates his attention for a long time, he will feel a little exhausted when he relaxes.
After resting for a while, Qibao was a little worried when she saw that Xiaoling still hadn't woken up, but she didn't dare to rush forward and disturb him. If Xiaoling was hurt because of her, she would blame herself.
After writing a note and placing it in front of Xiaoling's body, telling him to let her know when he woke up, only after doing this did Qibao go out of the space again.
It wasn't until midnight that the Xu family yawned and went back to the house to sleep.
The next day at dawn, Xu Dabo opened the door to release a hanging firecracker, at this time the village came one after another a burst of firecrackers, the children covered their ears and stood in front of the house.
Elder. Xu has no biological brothers, and his parents have both passed away. So the Xu family didn't go anywhere on the first day of the new year and just stayed at home.
Mrs. Wang boiled a large pot of water and put the ones that had been frozen outside overnight into the boiling hot water, the iron pots in the countryside were large and could cook seventy to eighty in one pot, but it would take several pots to cook enough to eat.
The first pot was given to the children first, and they rarely got to eat the dumplings, because making dumplings was too troublesome and there were so many people in the family. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Wang wouldn't want to make dumplings. Although they were delicious, making a meal of dumplings can be exhausting.
The children started to eat the dumplings in their mouths, sucking in cold air as they burned, but all of them were happy to eat.
The old man gave one bowl to the two white wolves, and another bowl to Xiaoba, and said: "You three are in for a treat today. I haven't even eaten yet, so I'm waiting on you three."
Two wolves and a dog surrounded the old man with a burst of intimacy.
The old man patted their big heads and said with a smile: "Eat quickly, you will have diarrhea if it gets cold!" He really treated them as human beings.
Qibao also secretly took a bowl and put it into the space, intending to give the waking Xiaoling a taste.
Yes, Qibao's voice came from Xiaoling's mind this morning. Seeing that there was nothing wrong with it, Qibao felt relieved.
After breakfast, every year on New Year's Eve the village children go to other people's houses in the village to say some auspicious words to please them. Families with copper coins would give one coin to each child, or they would give small snacks to these children, so the children loved celebrating the New Year. Not only did they have food to eat, but they also had coins to take.
Many children from the village came to Xu's house today, all of them five or six years old. Just looking at them made people feel soft. When Wang opened the door, a row of children all shouted sweetly: "Grandma Wang, have a happy New Year and everything goes well!" with an innocent smile on her face.
Mrs. Wang suddenly beamed, took out the red envelope she had prepared, and said: "Okay, you are all good children. Take it, this is the new year's money for you."
The children took the red envelopes and bent down to thank them again: "Thank you, Grandma Wang, for the red envelopes."
The more Wang looked at them, the more she liked them. All the children in their Xujia Village were beautiful. She said: "Just wait, I'll bring you some snacks."
Mrs. Wang quickly brought a plate of flower cakes, and a piece was distributed in the hands of one of the children, saying: "This is made by Granny Wang's family, it tastes good, take it and eat it."
The children took the flower cakes and thanked her again. They were almost crazy with joy. Just now they secretly opened the red envelope and looked at it. There were six copper coins! A lot!
Mrs. Wang looked at the jumping figures of this group of children, smiled, and entered the house with an empty plate.
After dinner, Qibao called her brothers and said: "I prepared a New Year gift for all my brothers! I made it myself!"
Xu Wenwu fondly touched Qibao's head and said: "Big brother likes whatever Qibao gives him. Even if she gives me a piece of straw, big brother will always carry it with him."
"Sister, what is it? Take it out and show it to me!" Xiaowu said.
Qibao took out a box and said: "This is it, open it and see for yourself!"
Xu Wenwu took the box and opened it, and several brothers gathered around it curiously.
Seeing a few jade pendants lying quietly in the box, Xiaowu exclaimed: "It's so beautiful, sister, is this really for us?"
Qibao nodded with a smile and said: "Of course, there are your names on it, all carved out by me with a knife!"