Chapter 31 excluding years

Li Xiaoyao was idle. She was the only idle person on the mountain who didn't do anything. Li Xiaoyao was idle and commanded several people to build the roofs of several rooms, made doors and windows of his room, and saw that there was a little room.

After this practice*, and Li Xiaoyao fell into a golden rubbing. This group of Zhuanghu bandits finally followed Li Zongliang and others. No matter whether the road ahead is good or bad, since it is clear, this heart is settled. What's more, it seems that the road ahead is bright now.

Li Xiaoyao looked coldly for two days, and his heart was 80% to 90% relieved. He began to think with Sister Zhang, thinking about what to eat, what to buy to use, and how to spend the first New Year on the West Mountain. Unfortunately, Sister Zhang is extremely thrifty and ignorant. Most of the time, Li Xiaoyao said, Zhang The eldest sister was in a daze. Only Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi followed Li Xiaoyao and flattered.

Since the first two made a statement that day, Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi regarded themselves as the people of the fifth master. The people on the mountain are all five masters, but the two of them are the people of the fifth master. They are the people who have been taught by the fifth master and followed the fifth master as a spy. This status is unusual. As long as the two are not by Li Xiao Yao sent out and followed Li Xiaoyao from time to time. Wherever he went, Li Xiaoyao was not polite. He simply regarded the two as a servant. There was no girl. Let's call the servant first.

In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve. Before dawn, the mountain began to shout loudly. Li Xiaoyao couldn't sleep. He got up and put on his clothes and opened the door. Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi had already rushed over. One picked up a large copper pot of hot water that had already boiled, and the other brought a bucket of mountain spring water. In the brass basin in the room, more than half of the hot water was poured into the pot and added some mountain spring water. After adjusting the water for two days, Zhang Gouzi adjusted the weight and adjusted it. The mixed water was just cold and hot. Jiang Shun took the pot and poured hot water into the white porcelain tea cup. Li Xiaoyao took the newly bought mane toothbrush, put salt on it, and slowly brushed his teeth. , washed his face and changed the water again and washed it again. Zhang Gouzi took the water and poured it out and put it back. Jiang Shun had already made tea with a covered bowl. Li Xiaoyao took the bowl and shook out of the room. Li Zongliang stood not far from the door, full of helpless eyes and looked at her with his waist. Li Xiaoyao hurriedly took the first two steps, extremely dog legs. He handed over the covered bowl in his hand: "Brother, when you drink tea, it's for you."

Wei Shuisheng, who was standing next to the wooden case with Spring Festival couplets, laughed. The pen in his hand shook and dropped a large piece of ink, and the paper under the pen was useless. Zhang Tiemu hurriedly took away the broken paper and spread a new one. Wei Shuisheng straightened up and looked at Li Zongliang and said with a smile, "On our mountain, The fifth master of Xiaoyao is the most full, which really makes people don't know what to say.

"That's right, the fifth master is a great nobleman, but he has to have a style. When he went back to our village, he had an official, that style is called a style!" Zhang Tiemu looked at Li Xiaoyao with admiration and flattery. Li Zongliang was even more crying and laughing by Zhang Tiemu's words. He sighed helplessly and reached out to take over the bowl. Every time he was about to discipline her face, she was so pitiful and timid. For a moment when his face was more rigid, she began to burst into tears and let him How can I bear it? This discipline is so bad every time. Fortunately, although it is a little nonsense, it has not been big. Let's talk about it later.

When Li Xiaoyao saw that Li Zongliang took the tea, she quickly turned around and told Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi: "Hurry up to make tea for your second master, third master and fourth master, and make me another cup for the fifth master."

Wei Shuisheng smiled and simply put down the pen in his hand, walked to Li Zongliang, raised his chin at Li Xiaoyao, and whispered him, "Brother, don't care about this in the future. Xiaoyao is so tired and lazy, and it hasn't been a day or two. Didn't you have made tea and served meals for her in the past? Now it's just a different person. Forget it. Let's save more dowry for her in the future.

Li Zongliang sighed heavily, opened his mouth, and sighed again. He had nothing to say. Shuisheng said it well. Xiaoyao's tired and lazy is really spoiled by their brothers. Li Xiaoyao's smiling eyes bent, took Wei Shuisheng and praised affectionately: "Brother Shuisheng is just good at talking. Brother Shuisheng quickly wrote Spring Festival couplets. I haven't posted it at the door of my house yet. Brother Shuisheng wrote the best picture for me."

Wei Shuisheng wrote the Spring Festival couplets. Zhang Tiemu and Jiang Shun only held a bowl of paste, put the Spring Festival couplets everywhere, and pasted the whole yard wall with a green, full of spring.

When the sun shines brightly, a spacious shed has been set up in the yard, surrounded by reed mats on three sides, and there are burning charcoal basins in the four corners. Sister Zhang is so busy that she sweats and keeps turning like a top. First, she adjusted the dumpling fillings and arranged five or six people to make dumplings in the reed shed. This was the first time on New Year's Eve. It's time to eat.

Five or six people squeezed into the warm reed shed, talking and laughing loudly while clumsily busy making dumplings. Next to the stove in front of the reed shed, several people who had helped cook on the red and white happy events of the neighbors, busy burning fire, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, and helping Sister Zhang. Today, Sister Zhang is going to make the most abundant in her life. A New Year's Eve dinner, at least seven dishes and eight bowls, is a difficult task.

Next to the reed shed, Zhao Erqing, Sun Qidi and other older and well-behaved about rules were silently and seriously tying up the rooster, pig's feet and other things to sacrifice to their ancestors. Far away, Zhang Jiwang took several people one by one by one and invited the ancestral cards to the table. Twenty people on the mountain. There are seven surnames in total, and a total of seven tables should be prepared.

Li Xiaoyao stood by the stove, biting a chicken claw, commanded Sister Zhang to cook duck, stew mutton, braised beef tendons, and make braised pork according to her method. Poor Sister Zhang had eaten what she had cooked, that is, pork and chicken, and the things next to it, not to mention cooking, she had not even eaten. Li Xiaoyao took people into Zhengcheng to buy those things. Xi, more than half of her had never even seen her. Li Xiaoyao had to stand in front of the stove and teach her how to cook. Fortunately, Sister Zhang could do it at one point. Under Li Xiaoyao's specious command, what she made was actually nothing worse.

In the evening, the wrapped dumplings were put up and placed on the outside case layer by layer. Jiang Shun took a few people to clean up the long wooden case newly made for the New Year's Eve dinner, wiped them again with hot water, set up bowls of chopsticks and wine glasses, and bowls of dishes. On the long case, the whole chicken, whole duck, large pieces of pork and mutton , beef, and thick mutton soup, chicken soup, and fish soup were placed on the table. A dog held a wine pot and filled the hot yellow wine one by one.

With Sister Zhang, the table full of people sat together. Li Zongliang stood up, raised his glass and said solemnly, "This glass of wine, first, first, our parents and brothers." With that, he raised the cup over his head and slowly fell to the ground. The people standing upright around the table also solemnly toasted the first glass of wine. Li Xiaoyao poured another glass of wine for Li Zongliang. Li Zongliang raised the glass and said with a smile, "These two glasses of wine, I respect everyone. Big guys have worked hard these days. In the future, I also look forward to our day. The better it is!"

Everyone talked and agreed. As Li Zongliang drank a cup of wine, they sat down and picked up their chopsticks.

Li Xiaoyao sat between Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng, slowly drinking a bowl of mutton soup, and smiling at the excited people drinking wine and eating meat.

This New Year's Eve dinner was eaten until midnight. Wangwang's charcoal basin was burning. Sister Zhang was half full, drank two glasses of wine, and then opened the front and back of the stove. Full of excitement overflowed from the shed to the shed. Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng drank until they were half drunk and quietly came out, leaned on the rocks side by side, looking at the twinkling starry sky on their heads. I don't know whether she was sad or happy to gossip. Li Xiaoyao liked to drink wine. On the one hand, she couldn't get used to such yellow wine. On the other hand, she was not interested in drinking. She drank half a bowl of mutton soup. After watching the bustle for a while, she yawned Li Zongliang and simply went back to the house to sleep. They all said that Shou Dong's life would live a long life. The old mother lives a long life. They don't have to pay attention to these people who have no father or mother.

No one restrained Li Erhuai tonight. Everyone took turns to toast him. Li Erhuai let go of the amount and fell under the table. Zhang Tiemu and Li Zonggui carried him up and dragged him to **. Sister Zhang hurriedly brought a bowl of sobering soup and followed him in. Li Zonggui simply came out and stood in the yard with Zhang Tiemu. , smilingly watching Zhao Wuge and Wang Mudun, who had drunk too much, took off their coats and wangled in a group of people's applause.

Get used to the lively people until dawn the next day. Li Xiaoyao was called up by Li Zongliang, washed in a daze, and came out behind Li Zongliang. Outside, more than one-person-high fighting incense had been burned in the middle of the yard, and the whole yard was full of strong and choking incense. At the top of the yard, there were seven tables in a row. , for the god's main plaque. In front of the plaque is a whole chicken, a whole fish, a pig's head, a sheep's head, and a bright red candle is lit. In the middle of the candle, there is a copper incense burner.

Li Xiaoyao, Li Erhuai and Li Zonggui followed their eldest brother respectfully, bowed three times, worshipped Li's ancestors, and next to the four of them. Wei Shuisheng knelt alone at the table and knelt down. Li Xiaoyao looked at Wei Shuisheng. Somehow, his heart suddenly surged into unspeakable sadness and burst into tears. In their eyes, their group of people are actually poor people who are desperate to survive in this troubled world.