After watching the fireworks, Li Rou and An Nanxiu took the bus until they got off at the western restaurant. The two found a seat and ordered two glasses of soda, waiting for Li Banzhuang to get off work.
After Li Banzhuang changed his clothes, he saw his elder brother and An Nanxiu in the corner. He was a little surprised, and went home happily together. Hearing that the child had been sent back in advance, he felt a little regretful. An Nanxiu took it. Li Rou's mobile phone was shown to Li Banzhuang, and Li Rou saw that An Nanxiu secretly took photos of him at some time, with clothes on and undressed.
Li Rou was a little embarrassed, because Li Banzhuang looked at him giggling, not because he could tell that the kid looked a bit like his brother, but he just thought it was very proud and fun for the little boy to be naked with his little jj up.
Both Li Rou and Li Banzhuang had finished working part-time during the winter vacation and were waiting for the Chinese New Year.
Although the house is rented, the lease period is very long, and the decoration is very homey, and the newly bought second-hand home appliances have also improved the quality of life. Li Rou and Li Banzhuang decided to get rid of the old habits I went to the house to celebrate the New Year, and this year I will celebrate the New Year in the city.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, the brothers and sisters of the Li family got up early and woke An Nanxiu up. An Nanxiu found that it was not even seven o'clock, and said sullenly: "Why, it's so cold, the bed is so cold. It's so comfortable here, I'm going to sleep until nine o'clock!"
"Today is Chinese New Year, there are many things to do, and you have to help." Li Rou divided the eggs into the bowls of three people, and his movements were much faster than usual, as if infected by the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.
"What does Chinese New Year mean?" An Nanxiu didn't have this concept.
"You don't know this? Sure enough, you have severe amnesia... oh, you may be a foreigner..." Li Banzhuang sympathized with An Nanxiu, "Chinese New Year is the biggest festival in China, and it is the most important day of the year. Come together to celebrate a safe year and pray for a happy year ahead."
An Nanxiu frowned, bored.
"Today is the last day of the lunar calendar, and tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. That's it. We implement two calendars to coexist. The Gregorian calendar means that the time for school sports games has passed." Li Rou knew how to explain it to An Nanxiu.
"Oh, two calendars, that's not bad. It's good for recording important dates in history. Many ancient documents often only follow one calendar to record dates. It's hard to determine the real date." An Nanxiu nodded.
"In short, today is a day worth celebrating. We have to do a lot of things. After breakfast, we will go shopping for food, prepare for the reunion dinner tonight, and buy firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, candies, etc." Li Banzhuang took out a A list, on which is written the things to buy today. She wrote a list, and my brother also wrote a list. Finally, they combined to decide what to buy and how much to buy.
While eating breakfast, Li Rou combined the two lists: "Plums will still save money, but our income has increased significantly this year, so I decided to upgrade the grapes to raisins, replace the bear biscuits with Dove chocolates in bulk, and melon seeds." If you want, you need pine nuts and macadamia nuts, and buy a few more bottles of drinks, besides Coke, you also need orange juice, and you also need a bottle of Nutrition Express... um, and beer?"
"Brother, drink once a year." Li Banzhuang looked at Li Rou pitifully.
"It's not okay to drink once in ten years." Li Rou resolutely crossed off the three yuan a can of beer that Li Banzhuang offered.
"I also want to write a list." Seeing that Li Banzhuang and Li Rou had both opened shopping lists, An Nanxiu felt it was unfair.
"Go ahead, today is Chinese New Year, all wishes should be fulfilled as much as possible." Li Rou still likes these traditional customs.
An Nanxiu took a pen and paper and began to write. After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to buy a cookbook.
"Why do you buy recipes? Want to learn how to cook?" Li Rou was very surprised.
"I'll order from the recipe in the future, and you cook for me." An Nanxiu put away the paper and pen. There is really nothing she particularly wants in this world, and explained to Li Rou: "In this way, I won't Let you take me to a restaurant to eat delicious food."
"Hey, I really raised a princess." Li Banzhuang sighed, and looked at An Nanxiu angrily: "An Nanxiu, you must marry my brother in the future, otherwise he is busy taking care of you, it is too bad .”
"Why don't you marry him!" An Nanxiu blushed and stared at Li Banzhuang.
"He doesn't want me." Li Banzhuang glanced at his brother and snorted softly.
Li Rou tapped her on the head lightly. Did he learn from An Nanxiu? His speech became more and more messy.
"So you want to marry your brother, Li Banzhuang, you are completely broken, don't you know that in your world, brothers and sisters are forbidden to mate?" An Nanxiu hurriedly turned the topic to Li Banzhuang. I don't want to talk about the topic of marrying Li Rou. An Nanxiu has never thought about that kind of thing. It's too scary. Marrying Li Rou means that he will do perverted things to An Nanxiu every day.
"Speaking so badly..." Li Banzhuang blushed a lot. An Nanxiu didn't speak like a normal person. She always regarded others as animals.
"Shut up and talk nonsense, you two will stay at home today, and I won't take you out." Li Rou couldn't stand it anymore, Li Banzhuang and An Nanxiu couldn't get along together, but if there was An Nanxiu Zhishui always felt that the atmosphere was much better, and the three girls couldn't quarrel together.
An Nanxiu and Li Banzhuang looked at each other and stopped talking. Without Li Rou, the two of them stayed at home, meaningless.
After breakfast, Li Rou took a look at how warmly the two girls were dressed, and went downstairs together.
Li Rou looked at the sky, it was gloomy, but it didn't look like it could snow. Although there are always experts and weather forecasters to remind everyone to pay attention to the rainy and snowy weather this winter, most of the winter is over, leaving a small tail It never snowed, not even sleet.
Even on New Year's Eve, the streets are still bustling with activity. Most of the shops don't close until the afternoon, and very few of them stay open throughout the Spring Festival.
There were too many people and too many cars, and even electric cars had no advantage, so the three decided to walk to Wal-Mart.
The things that Li Rou and Li Banzhuang want to buy are relatively scattered small things, such as new clothes that have been signed for online shopping, and they can wear new clothes tomorrow morning.
When I came to Wal-Mart, I started shopping for the snacks prepared for the Spring Festival. Although Li Rou was sure that there would be no one at home, the three of us would consume a lot at home. I saw that when I was young, I could only watch other people’s children eat a lot. The snacks that he and his sister can only look at can also be bought by the catty, and Li Rou feels very happy.
Li Rou is a very easy-to-satisfy person, he doesn't have so many ambitions, as long as his life is better now than before, he will be very happy.
After shopping, Li Rou and Li Banzhuang pushed the shopping cart to the library area to find An Nanxiu. She was wearing a hat with pigtails standing in front of a tall bookshelf, holding several cookbooks in her hand, looking at Li Rou Came over and threw the recipe in the cart.
"You think I'm a chef who can cook a full banquet of Manchu and Han people?" Li Rou flipped through the recipes, and it turned out to be a series of recipe books, including all eight major cuisines.
"You can learn it. Isn't it very simple? No matter what kind of cooking you make, you just need to throw the ingredients into the pot and stir." An Nanxiu said indifferently.
"A person who can only cook and scramble two eggs can actually say such words." Li Banzhuang sighed.
"It is precisely because I can cook this that I can say this, because I just mix and stir these things, so other things should be the same, there is no difference." An Nanxiu feels that as long as he can cook a dish, all I can almost cook all the dishes, not to mention the recipes.
Li Banzhuang and An Nanxiu started arguing again because of this matter. Li Rou ignored them and pushed the shopping cart to checkout with a blank expression. Then the two girls quickly ended the argument and ran over.
Leaving Wal-Mart and coming to the street, I once again felt the not very strong taste of the New Year. Li Rou felt that this is probably the case for everyone. When I was young, I always felt that the New Year was more interesting. When I grew up, I became less particular about the New Year. It has been commercialized, and the discounts at the end of the year are still going on. Red lanterns and Spring Festival couplets can be seen everywhere on the street, but the New Year's celebrations on people's faces are no longer visible. Most people are waiting for the arrival of this festival with blank faces.
The three of Li Rou are still very happy. The community is much more lively. Many people have gone home for the New Year. There are also children who set off some small fireworks and firecrackers in the community. The older ones all got into the net. , It is said that the childhood memories of the post-80s are candy and firecrackers, and the childhood memories of post-90s are only the Internet.
Back home, Li Banzhuang tidied up her things. Except when she was arguing with An Nanxiu, she always consciously did the work of the hostess of this small house, doing many trivial things well, putting snacks and candies in the On the plate, all kinds of cured meat and fresh chicken and beef are put in the refrigerator.
Li Lu posted Spring Festival couplets, which he wrote himself. He felt that those beautifully crafted Spring Festival couplets on the street were meaningless, only those he wrote had meaning. Anyway, the price of buying a bottle of ink, a brush and red paper was actually cheaper than a pair of couplets. Better Spring Festival couplets are even lower.
Then there is cleaning, which is something that every household will do. An Nanxiu shuts herself in the room, waiting for Li Rourou and Li Banzhuang to finish cleaning the living room and Li Banzhuang's room, and An Nanxiu waits for Li Rourou to give it to him. Clean the room.
This means that after a busy day, after eating a sumptuous New Year's Eve at night, Li Rou turned on his computer and hung up, and then sat in front of the TV with Li Banzhuang and An Nanxiu, waiting to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
This is also a habit. Before Li Rou picked up his first TV, Li Banzhuang and Li Banzhuang didn’t have many opportunities to watch TV together. Now there are big LED color TVs that look like half a piece of wall. Of course, we have to watch the high-definition Spring Festival Gala It's a party... Although I feel that it may not be as good as finding a few funny videos on the Internet and watching the joy.
"Well, as parents, I will give you lucky money." Li Rou took out a red envelope and handed it to An Nanxiu: "This is yours."
An Nanxiu took it out to see how much it was, eight hundred yuan, she didn't care much, and put it in the small pocket in front of her clothes casually.
"This is for Li Zi." Li Rou stuffed the red envelope to Li Banzhuang: "Brother can finally give you a decent red envelope."
"Thank you, brother." Li Banzhuang didn't look at the money, and held the red envelope tightly. It doesn't matter how much money is, but she saw her brother's pride. It was a man who finally supported the pride of a family—
I got up too late today, so I will write now and sleep well at night. Tomorrow six shifts, yes, six shifts, 18,000 words.
If you can do it the first time, you can certainly do it the second time.