Chapter 88 Chapter 88

New Year came, Pei Silk An still did not come back, Pei’s family this year is always a little lonely, not only Pei’s family, the military region of the man did not come back to the family, the joy is mixed with worry and worry.

Wu Ma has been chanting the Buddha’s name significantly more often these days.

Lu Nong does not want the children to be too affected by the emotions of adults, in this era of material scarcity, New Year’s Eve is considered to be the happiest and most joyful days of the year for children.

At the same time, life must have some sense of ceremony, the New Year is the Chinese people’s national sense of ceremony, unique to the Chinese people’s romance, Lu Nong wants the children to feel.

Since it’s going to be a proper New Year’s Eve, it’s only natural to get the family moving.

A few days before the New Year, Wu Ma, Lu Nong and Pei Zheng went to the town supply and marketing office and the village market to buy a large pile of New Year’s goods, chickens, ducks, fish, meat, tea, wine, oil and soy sauce, dried fruits and preserves, firecrackers and firecrackers.

After preparing the New Year’s goods, Lu Nong led Pei Zheng and Xiaohuai to clean up and dress up the house, which was just renovated a few days ago, and the key is to dress up the house.

Windowpane, lanterns, Chinese knots, red couplets, Chinese New Year is all about red.

The mainstay of the Pei family’s window cuttings are Wu Ma and Pei Zheng.

The flowers, birds, fishes and insects cut out by Wu Ma were so vivid that Pei Zheng marveled at Wu Ma’s craftsmanship, and even learned from Wu Ma, and learned in a good way, at least it was able to bluff people when pasted on the window.

Lu Nong looked at Pei Zheng’s quickness, skimmed his lips, but happened to be seen by Pei Zheng and Wu Ma, Wu Ma smiled narrowly, Pei Zheng raised his eyebrows, knowing that there was an allusion in there that he didn’t know about, so he asked Wu Ma, “Grandma Wu, what are you smiling about?”

Wu Ma shook her head, a good godmother has to give her daughter some face.

Pei Zheng rolled his eyes and stopped talking, waiting for Lu Nong to leave he quietly approached Wu Ma and said, “Grandma Wu, just tell me?”

Wu Ma: “It’s not that big of a deal, it’s just that Neng Neng doesn’t know how to cut window clippings.”

“That’s it?” Pei Zheng didn’t believe it.

Wu Ma laughed without saying anything, she did laugh because Lu Nu couldn’t cut a windowpane, and of course, because of a funny incident that had happened in it.

Lu Nu is left-handed, others are right-handed pen and chopsticks, but at one time she will only use her left hand to eat and write, and later finally learned to write and hold chopsticks with her right hand, but still the first to use her left hand to do other things, such as holding scissors.

This led to her childhood when she first learned to cut windows with Wu’s mother, than the right-handed cousins to learn slower, little Lu Nong can not stand the blow, to know that she has always been the fastest at home to learn things the smartest people, but failed in a small window cutting, in a fit of anger, never touch paper cutting again.

Then every New Year’s Eve, the children gathered in front of Wu Ma to cut the window, Lu Nong will run out, for several years, not only the cousins are curious, even the adults are curious, to ask Lu Nong answer, but Lu Nong bite the bullet and said that cutting the window is not interesting.

But after all, she is young, the look of concealment is not as thorough as the adults, and was soon guessed by her uncle, knowing that Lu Nu is because left-handed people do not learn as fast as other right-handed people, everyone cried and laughed, which can be really cute stubbornness.

How can a person be proficient at everything, everyone has something they are not good at.

However, no one revealed her, maintaining Lu Nong’s small self-esteem, so until adulthood, Lu Nong still can’t cut window flowers.

Out of the door Lu Nu went to the bamboo forest to cut a few bamboo, she wants to use bamboo and red cloth to do red lanterns, paper cutting will not, do lanterns she will ah, this is simple.

Carrying bamboo back home, Xiaohuai quickly came over and said he wanted to follow his mother to learn how to make lanterns, Lu Neng crossed his arms and smiled proudly, she also has someone to support the scene.

In order to thank Comrade Gu Xiaohuai for his support, Lu Nong made red lanterns and taught Xiaohuai to make palace lanterns, lanterns and orange lanterns, which was largely Lu Nong’s doing and Xiaohuai’s playing.

Palace lanterns and lanterns need to be painted on screens, Lu Nong gave Xiao Huai two of them, letting him give free play, and she got herself excited, then left two for Wu Ma and Pei Zheng respectively.

The last thing Xiao Huai drew was an orchid, he was learning Chinese painting recently, and with a few simple strokes, he had quite a style, even Mrs. Wu complimented him on his drawing, Xiao Huai smiled coyly.

Wu Ma painted Chang’e running to the moon, beautifully painted and vivid, straight to Pei Zheng looked dumbfounded, as if recognizing Wu Ma for the first time.

Waiting to see Lu Nong’s painting, Pei Zheng has been numb, and even have a kind of “should have been” feeling, Lu Nong respectively in the four sides of the palace lanterns painted on the magnificent frame, the sky fireworks lights like day, pear tree flowers fluttering, the beauty of the independent.

Wu Ma laughed softly, “You’re drawing a lyric, aren’t you?”

Lu Nu nodded and said mischievously, “Then you might as well guess what the word is?”

Wu Ma looked at Pei Zheng, and Pei Zheng thought a little, “Is it The Case of the Green Jade by Ju Shi Jiaxuan? The east wind releases a thousand flowers at night …… and looks back, but that person is at the end of the lights.”

Lu Neng shrugged, it would be abnormal if Pei Zheng couldn’t guess.

Finally, it was the turn of Pei Zheng’s palace lantern. Pei Zheng did not know how to draw, so he used a pencil to draw, with childish strokes, but the drawing was the most touching.

Lamp painted Pei family, Wu Ma sitting on a chair, the little white dog lying at the feet of Wu Ma, he himself holding Gu Xiaohuai, Lu Nong and Pei Silian standing together, holding the little summer cubs in his arms, the family is neat, reunion.

Pei Zheng took Xiao Huai out to hang the big red lanterns in front of the door, and hung the palace lanterns in the corners of the garden and on both sides of the path, and as the night fell, the lanterns emitted a ghostly light that was beautiful to behold.

The person who writes the couplets is Wu Ma, Lu Nong is good at thin gold font, not as good as Wu Ma’s Yen Regular Script is strong and full, dignified and rich, and the couplets written look festive.

Pei Zheng watched Wu Ma writing the couplets with his own eyes, and his admiration for her reached its peak, how could he have ever imagined that the old lady was not only dexterous, a good cook and a good window cutter, but also a good brush writer and painter, could this be an ordinary old lady?

Absolutely not!

Pei Zheng for the first time a little depressed, think he also grew up being shouted “genius”, without exaggeration, to say, kill all the same age unbeatable, has always been the compound of the family’s own mother to beat up their own children’s reason: “You look at other people Pei Zheng, and then look at you … … …”

But from Wu Ma to Lu Nong to Xiaohuai, these three people are more powerful than one, Lu Nong, not to mention, the professors proclaimed “genius”, multi-talented, very rich in life, no matter what the environment, where to go she lived a leisurely and easy.

His younger brother Gu Xiaohuai, a child of five years of age, can not forget, read, write, math and arithmetic painting easily and effortlessly, oh yes, but also know how to turn the ball.

And originally he thought the most most ordinary Wu Ma, turned out to be a hidden high people, after half a day, the whole family most pull across is his own.

Pei Zheng was depressed (take the current word for emo).

He picked up Gu Xiaohuai and looked left and right, looking skeptical, “Lao Er, don’t tell me that you still have any hidden stunts that you haven’t revealed, so when the day comes that you want to give old brother a surprise, I can tell you that I’m not surprised at all.”

Mrs. Wu: “……”

Lu Nu: “……”

Wu Ma was helpless, “He’s still a child, how can he have any stunts?”

“That’s not necessarily true,” Pei Zheng shook his head and said slowly, “Grandma Wu has all the masterpieces that she has hidden to this day, and you can see that Xiao Huai’s ability to forget is already exaggerated enough, so maybe it can be even more exaggerated.”

Not bothering to pay attention to his juggling, Lu Nong stuffed Pei Zheng with the dried couplets and boiled paste, “Take your brother and hurry to paste the couplets, by the way, both of you put on your hats properly for me, don’t catch a cold.”

“Aye! Guarantee to complete the mission!” With that, Pei Zheng buckled on the large tiger head cap for himself and the small tiger head cap for Xiao Huai.

Lu Nong design, Wu Ma handmade tiger head cap, wind resistance and warmth, done Lu Nong afraid Pei Zheng refused to wear, has thought of the corresponding strategy, who knows Pei Zheng very much like.

Do not mind the tiger head cap childishly destroy his image, and even very positive to the head to wear, these two days wearing a tiger head cap and Xiaohuai went out to skate the street greatly increased.

He is not afraid of people’s jokes, others look at him, he proudly towards people waving his head, but also let Xiaohuai cooperate with him to shake his head together, all-round performance of his tiger head hat.

“Aye! Promise to complete the task!” Gu Xiaohuai took after his older brother, his little face serious.

A big one and a little one, the big gangly one and the little stupid one, both bobbing their heads out the door, followed by the farty little white dog.

Lu Neng shook his head, they were really two living treasures.

On New Year’s Day, children wear festive clothes, adults are more low-key, this year is after all six years, even if the force is less chaotic, the attention should still be paid.

This aspect Lu Nong has been paying attention to, even if some days ago, the family big change more furniture, but the furniture is the original wood style, keep the original color of the wood, at most more ingenuity, so that people will not look at the rich and noble this word linked together.

In the evening, Wu Ma was at the helm, Pei Zheng and Lu Nong played the role, and Xiaohuai was responsible for being cute on the sidelines, making a table full of good food.

Wine and dine, to the firecrackers of the link, Lu Nong deliberately take Xiaohuai out to see, not long after the “Four Olds”, can not be superstitious, firecrackers in ancient times was to expel the “New Year”, belongs to the category of ghosts and gods in the traditional culture, but also to be outlawed.

I’m afraid this is the last year I’ll be able to set off firecrackers.

After the firecrackers, the family gathered on the sofa to get high and chat, Lu Nong asked Pei Zheng about his plans for the coming year.

Pei Zheng is a very opinionated person, nowadays college students are scarce talents, and the state packages and assigns jobs.

But Pei Zheng was bent on becoming a soldier, and after graduation, he refused the good job he was assigned and chose to go south to join his own father.

Specifically what was discussed between him and Pei Yinan Lu Nu was not clear, but she was curious to know if Pei Zheng would go to the Yushui brigade as a youth like in the book.

Being a youth means he will meet the female main character and the female match, in case the plot is unstoppable and Pei Zheng falls in love with the female main character with 800 heart eyes like in the book and invites the female match with 800 heart eyes ……

Baldness.

But Lu Nong can’t do anything to stop Pei Zheng from becoming a youth and change his destiny.

She can choose to change the course of her life because she only has to be responsible for herself, and whatever happens in the future, she will carry her own choices.

But she is not qualified to intentionally change someone else’s fate, and Pei Zheng, the male lead, should let them decide for themselves whether they love each other or not with Xu Yuehua, the female lead.

“Not sure, my dad wants me to go to the countryside, I want to join the army straight away.” Pei Zheng pursed the corners of his lips and said.

He wanted to go straight into the army, but without the old man’s nod of approval, how would the recruiting office dare to accept him?

However, Pei Zheng is not afraid to go to the countryside to suffer is, the old man can eat when he was young, he can eat the same, no big deal.

Lu Nong patted his shoulder, eyes with sympathy, Pei Zheng means Lu Nong is sympathetic to his inability to enter the army, but do not know Lu Nong is sympathetic to his future life colorful, in case he really went to the Yushui brigade as a youth, more wonderful.

On the first day of the New Year, the children of each family went to the door to pay tribute to the New Year, and other families only prepared some melon seeds pumpkin seeds different, this year is the first year their family moved to the military zone, Lu Nong not only prepared the melon seeds, but also prepared candies and snacks.

Each door to pay New Year’s visit to the children can get a handful of sugar and a piece of snacks, the beginning of the children to come less, the children are not familiar with the Pei family, by the family in-laws asked to go to Pei’s home to walk, some children honestly come to say hello and say good luck, some children to the in-laws words as a breeze, simply do not come.

But when the first children who came to Pei’s house got candies and delicious snacks in Pei’s house, the word spread, and the big and small children flocked to Pei’s house, and with more children, Pei’s house became lively.

Pei Zheng was a very personally charismatic person, and was the absolute king of the children in the capital city compound, and unless he didn’t want to be in the limelight, as long as he wanted to be, he would definitely be able to gain the children’s conviction.

It’s the same here, a few youths who brought their younger siblings to Pei’s house, just hit the ground running and chatted with Pei Zheng for a few moments, and when Lu Nong finished greeting the little kids, he turned around to see that, good lord, Pei Zheng was all brotherly and sisterly with others.

Those few teenagers who were the same age as Pei Zheng looked at Pei Zheng with stars in their eyes, full of conviction.

A handful of sugar and a snack helped Pei Zheng and Xiao Huai open up a dating situation, no less.

Afterward, Pei Zheng led a group of people hooting and hollering away, not forgetting to take his tiger hat and his younger brother Xiao Huai with him when he left.

He is really not afraid of people laughing, more absolute is then several families door to door to ask Wu Ma tiger head hat practice, outside the tiger head hat people also increased, a moment of tiger head hat with a big cotton jacket inexplicably became a popular wear.

Lu Nu: “……”

After a group of boys left, there were still some girls in the house who couldn’t leave, they loved Auntie Lu’s house so much, there were beautiful lanterns, fun swings, and delicious sweets and treats.

Military wives also came to Pei’s house one after another to pay New Year’s greetings, after seeing Pei’s house layout, praised her generosity, good words don’t need money to say, Lu Nong all smiled and accepted, only said one sentence: “This year has just come, it should be.”

After the New Year, a little more than a month, Lu Nong will soon be working, the little summer cubs will soon be five months, Lu Nong and Wu Ma discussed to wean her from the night milk, otherwise Lu Nong night rest is not good, can not work during the day.

However, the comrades of the Propaganda Department knew that Lu Nong was in the period of breastfeeding, and after getting the definite answer that Lu Nong would work in the Propaganda Department, they comforted her and told her not to be in a hurry, and to get well and come back to work.

Lu Nong will not take their own body jokes, she also want to wait for the body to recover poorly before going to work, so there is no hurry, after the New Year and then raise two months.

Hu Mei heard at home that the comrades of the Propaganda Department personally to Pei’s family to pass the message, the heart is no longer willing, but also understand that Lu Nong said that day that he would go to work in the Propaganda Department of the words are not bragging, are true, she envy and jealousy, vowed to be admitted to the elementary school.

But she is rigid and does not know how to change, only know the routine learning, coincidentally, the principal this time out of the question is much more flexible, she wasted nine oxen and two tigers only to make half of the questions, lost to another young girl temporarily inserted into the test.

Years of wishing to fall through, or in the case of reviewing a very long time, Hu Mei heart fire, all of a sudden fell ill, sick all day to hide in the house, do not dare to go out to see people, she felt that Lu Nong and the people in the military region, now must be laughing at her.

It was Hu Mei who was overthinking it, Lu Neng hadn’t even remembered her at all.

Turning to March, Lu Nong’s secret garden is no longer bare, flowers and leaves flourish, green plants wrap the whole garden, this place has really become a secret, the branches of the luxuriant flowers competing to open, decorating the garden.

Huge swaths of roses and roses that climbed the fence and draped …… down to the ground on the shelves.

The breeze blew through, bringing up gusts of fragrance.

Path low paving vegetation spit out thick green, like a layer of carpet, and after a few days, the carpet bloomed purple, pink flowers, from a distance, like a layer of smoke shrouded in the path, beautiful.

Lu Nong was busy making Pei Zheng prune the garden, the garden is big is very cool and beautiful, but the only drawback is watering the flowers and pruning up, it is also very troublesome.

This day the weather is good, Lu Nong after dinner to water the flowers outside, the garden has Pei Silent An from the mountains to bring the mountain spring water, set the hose, then you can enjoy spraying.

Pei Zheng went out early in the morning before dawn, said he was going to the town to pick up someone, asked him who he was picking up, he was secretive how not to say.

Counting the time, I should be home soon.

After Lu Nu finished watering the flowers, he went to the house to carry the little summer cubs out and called Xiao Huai and Wu Ma to go to the garden to get some fresh air.

Such a beautiful garden, such a good weather, do not come out to enjoy some, sorry Lu Nong fortunate to create the garden.

The family is happy and laughing in the garden, Xiaobai drills into the flowers to pounce on the butterflies, accidentally crushing a few flowers, Gu Xiaohuai follows the little white dog and stops it to teach it a lesson, the purpose is not to destroy the flowers and trees.

Lu Nu guffawed, sometimes she always felt that Xiaobai could understand Gu Xiaohuai’s words.

“Ahhhh ……,” the little summer cub reached out her tiny white hand in her mother’s arms, trying to grab a small pink flower that slanted out from the branch beside her.

After scratching for a long time and finally catching it, the little summer cub was happy and grabbed the flower in his hand.

Suddenly, the sound of the door opening came from the doorway, and Lu Nu turned his head to look.