At eight o'clock in the evening, Gu Mingli came to call Gu Mingtang and took the two children to ice rolling. Isn't there a well in the village? In winter, the place is surrounded by ice.
Every year when New Year's Eve comes, adults will bring their children here to have a roll, which means that all the illnesses will be gone. Tomorrow is the first day of the New Year, and the new year will be disease-free and healthy.
I don’t know where the custom is.
Anyway, every year, Lu Liangzhou takes his children to play around.
As for Gu Mingtang, don't mention it.
The original person was either noisy or fussy, or scolded and picked fights. In short, it was as if he was possessed by a rat in the gutter.
Not this year. After the New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Hui took Gu Mingtang's hand, with red eyes, and asked quietly, "Mom, will our family still have New Year's Eve dinner like this next year?"
Gu Mingtang touched Lu Hui's head.
What should I say?
Do you fully agree?
"As long as I am here, it will always be like this." That's what she said. After feeling it for a while, she added, "Mom will always be here, don't worry."
Lu Liangzhou stood at the door with an unpredictable expression.
Gu Mingli didn't expect that her brother-in-law's family would be dispatched, which was very scary, but she suddenly felt it was natural.
A large group of people came to the well.
Gu Mingtang saw Zhou Zongming rushing towards her and calling her second aunt.
I saw three girls from Ma Dafeng's family. The eldest one was named Ma Zhaodi. I saw Gu Mingtang smiling shyly.
Lu Xueyan insisted that her parents hug her and roll away together.
"Aren't you a pie then?" Gu Mingtang pinched the red ball on her hat in a funny way, "Go by yourself."
Ma Zhaodi ran over, and the ten-year-old girl actually volunteered to protect Lu Hui and Lu Xueyan.
Gu Mingtang stood aside with Lu Liangzhou.
Lili and Xiaoxue ran over. The two older girls were playing with flowers in their hands and waving them happily in front of Gu Mingtang. Lu Liangzhou saw it, as if there were many stars falling in Gu Mingtang's eyes.
After returning home, Lu Liangzhou took the initiative to make noodles and chop stuffing, while Gu Mingtang was thinking about preparing a few red envelopes.
Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and you need to give lucky money to celebrate the New Year.
Zhou Zongming will definitely come, Jiang Aiguo and Ma Zhaodi, the girl next door, don’t underestimate her, she has her own little wisdom, and she will come if things go wrong.
Not to mention my niece Chunya.
Then prepare ten.
You can't give it casually, you have to put a red envelope in it.
Gu Mingtang happened to have big red paper, so he made ten red envelope wrappers with paste.
After Lu Liangzhou finished his work, he entered the house and saw Gu Mingtang loading brand new dime bills inside.
"What time will the dumplings be made?" Lu Liangzhou asked.
"It'll be done soon. It's too late. They should be sleepy."
Lu Hui was in high spirits, "I'm not sleepy. I'm going to set off cannons with Zong Ming later."
The two children looked at Gu Mingtang with bright eyes. Lu Xueyan asked, "Mom, can you give me the lucky money now?"
"No, not until after midnight."
After putting away all the red envelopes and making dumplings, Gu Mingtang asked Lu Liangzhou, "When are you leaving?"
Lu Liangzhou stopped rolling the dough and looked up at Gu Mingtang, who was pinching the dumplings with interest. His eyes fell on her long lowered eyelashes and he said calmly, "In the third year of junior high school, I am not going back to the Lu family. I am on a business trip. School is about to start. You can’t go back to school until now.”
In fact, he should leave tomorrow.
The situation has been a bit complicated recently, and he has to rush to the base to participate in a secret mission.
However, he found that Gu Mingtang was a woman who attached great importance to ritual.
For example, during the Chinese New Year, she meticulously followed what she had to do every day. She also said that this is thousands of years of traditional culture and the sustenance of people's beautiful hearts.
She did not put coins in the dumplings, but put celery leaves, telling the children that whoever eats them will be a lucky baby.
The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when married girls in Beihuang return to their parents' homes.
He never went back with her.
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In the past, on New Year's Day, even the big yellow dog wouldn't want to pass by the front door of Gu Mingtang's house. Why is it so lively this year?
First, Zhou Zongming came and knocked on the door. When he entered, he knelt down to Gu Mingtang, kowtowed three times, and shouted to his second aunt a happy New Year.
Then Lu Hui thought about what happened last night and had a bad feeling.
He began to correct her, "Zong Ming, you can't call me Second Aunt. Your mother and my mother are not biological sisters. You called me wrong."
"Is it wrong?" Zhou Zongming scratched his head in confusion.
"Well, my brother is right, you call me Chuola." Xiaobao Xueyan hurriedly added, "Your mother's surname is not Gu, so you can't call her Auntie Ai."
Zhou Zongming blinked and couldn't understand such a relationship, but he just wanted to shout like this, so he discussed with Lu Hui and asked Gu Mingtang to be his second aunt.
Lu Hui's attitude was firm, "No, it's not a kiss. You can't yell randomly."
Gu Mingtang hurriedly took out the red envelope. Before that, Lu Hui and Lu Xueyan had already received it under the pillow.
New Year's money? You have to put it under the pillow.
Lu Hui's attention was diverted, because he didn't know how much New Year's money was inside, so he coaxed Zhou Zongming to open it. After finding out that it was a dime, he expressed satisfaction. Both he and his sister had ten new ten-cent tickets.
Lu Liangzhou took the children to pay New Year's greetings.
Gu Mingtang took this opportunity to enter the space to get a pair of cotton gloves. Lu Liangzhou's gloves were worn out while clearing the snow, and she had to find them for him.
Before I could go in, Ma Zhaodi actually came.
She was the only one who wished Gu Mingtang New Year greetings. She was very shy, but she did not flinch and gave Lu Xueyan a newly made shuttlecock.
It is combed out with castor beans and formed into strips. It looks very nice when kicked.
Gu Mingtang handed Ma Zhaodi a red envelope. Ma Zhaodi was so frightened that she turned her hand away, glanced at Gu Mingtang, and ran away. However, after running a few steps, she stopped and said timidly, "Thank you, Aunt Lu."
Aunt Lu?
What a fresh title.
"Come here and get the new year's money. And why are you thanking me?" Gu Mingtang didn't chase her, but he was not sure why this little girl suddenly got close to her.
Zhou Zongming was an exception.
Ma Zhaodi said, "Aunt Lu, my dad beat my mom, and you were the only one who pulled him away."
Gu Mingtang, "That's because others haven't met her, but she will help if she does."
"No, my dad beat my mom in the yard. Many people saw it, but no one paid attention."
"Ma Zhaodi, do you blame them?" Gu Mingtang became interested.
Ma Zhaodi shook her head fiercely, "Don't complain. My mother said that helping you is a favor and not helping you is a duty. My mother also said that she has this fate and no one should blame her."
After saying that, Ma Zhaodi showed a big smile to Gu Mingtang, and then ran away without a trace.
This is her fate. The sins she did in her previous life may have been owed to him in her previous life...
Gu Mingtang found that many women in this village liked to say these words.
It's normal. If you can't fight against fate, you can only accept it in the end.
