"Then let's set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve next year," Zhong Mingwei said softly, while pinching the little girl's round nose. "If you're not too cold by then, we'll leave it all night, from dark to dawn!"
"Aren't you afraid of avalanches next year?" Ah Chou gave him a gouged look. He murmured, "You are becoming more and more slick now. When you tell lies. You don't even blink your eyelids. You really look more and more like that screw-up scholar."
"Why am I so glib? Why do I look like that screwdriver and scholar?" Zhong Mingwei laughed dumbfoundedly while looking at Ah Chou. He said softly, "Didn't it be agreed that next year we will go down the mountain to open up a few acres of land and farm it well? Of course we will move down the mountain to live there. Naturally we will be able to set off cannons, right?"
"Really? I forgot about this. Hehe," Ah Chou laughed, while slipping into the man's arms. Hey hey hey again. "I'm not afraid of the cold. Then we'll really fire the cannon all night! Hehehe, I've wanted to do it for a long time. I just never had the chance, and the firecrackers are so expensive..." At this point. Ah Chou sat up suddenly again, and looked at Zhong Mingwei with a heavy and cautious face, "By the way, how much would it cost to set off a firecracker all night? One penny? Or two?"
"You little head, you spend money all day long." Zhong Mingwei shook his head helplessly, "You can't bear to touch a few hundred taels of silver, why? Are you planning to keep it for a baby?"
"Bah! You're the only one keeping babies!" A Chou blushed and glared at the man, "The ones born are all gluttonous babies!"
The next second, the corner of Zhong Mingwei's mouth twitched: "..."
"Are we really going to move down the mountain?" Ah Chou obviously didn't know anything about the man's troubles, she retracted into the man's arms again, and said with emotion, "I'm quite reluctant to stay here, I've lived here After such a long time, the kang is still newly built, and the mountain is also quiet, just the two of us... "
The man who was originally so angry that he wanted to bite, the annoyance in his heart disappeared, and he put his arms around Ah Chou, and said softly: "We will have a new home in the future, it will be better than here, and there will be a big man In the garden, if you want to grow flowers, you can plant flowers. If you don’t want to grow flowers, then you can grow our favorite vegetables. There will also be a warm kang there, which will be wider and bigger than this kang... "
"What do you need such a big kang? How big a place do you need for two people to sleep?" Ah Chou cut off Zhong Mingwei's conversation, and his two legs dangled wildly on the kang, "I think this kang is too big. .”
"Naturally, it's useful," Zhong Mingwei smiled softly, clamping Ah Chou's swaying calves with his legs, and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter where we live, the most important thing is that we will be together forever and ever." Together."
"Yeah, we're called family when we're together," A Chou said softly, meeting Zhong Mingwei's eyes, "Zhong Mingwei, you are the pillar of our family, and I can only feel at ease when you're here."
"No," Zhong Mingwei gently caressed Ah Chou Bai Jinjin's face, and said word by word, "You are my backbone."
The pillars and the backbone smiled at each other, and amidst the sound of sporadic firecrackers, they hugged each other tightly to welcome the new year.
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The first day of the first month of the 33rd year of Jiasheng.
That night.
capital.
Second Prince's Mansion.
Zhong Ming'e returned to the mansion in the dark. Concubine Shu is not feeling well this time. The second concubine, Zou, has been in the palace for the past few days. Her body seemed to be getting better, but Mrs. Zou was exhausted again, so on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a group of princes and concubines entered the palace to greet the Queen Mother and Lord Long Live. Mrs. Zou could not get up, so Zhong Ming'e could only be alone. Entering the palace, sat in the Palace of Compassion and Ning for a long time, watching Da'an's stomach puffed up, staring until his eyes were about to bleed, and listening to Concubine Shu's nagging in Zhongcui Palace for a long time, Zhong Ming'e was really in good health physically and mentally. Tired, after finally having dinner, Zhong Ming'e finally left the palace, and the words of Concubine Shu still echoed in his ears, "It's not easy for your daughter-in-law. It's really pitiful to rely on you without children. No matter how much you don't like She should also be pitied, and don't criticize her too much."
Zhong Ming'e didn't know how annoying he was, but Concubine Shu was right. It was indeed pitiful for Mrs. Zou to marry him. Because of this, he felt even more depressed. From the palace to the second prince's mansion, Zhong Ming'e was in trouble all the way. He didn't say a word, just sat in the sedan chair and lost his mind.