Salt Xiao Fulang

The next day is the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and the strong flavor of the New Year permeates the streets and alleys.

Song Xu squeezed his way out of the crowd around the stall at the entrance of the alley, protected the newly bought couplets with blessing characters in his arms, and trotted all the way back to the shop.

In recent days, the shop's business has been increasing all the way, and it is also the end of the year, and people are willing to reward themselves.The store was busy, and it happened that there was no farm work in winter, so Song Xu hired Mi Xiaofei to help every day, and the wages he paid were the same as Tian Xiaoqing.

Even so, he and Xiaochun couldn't stop for a moment, making dumplings and buckwheat barley all day long, and even closing the shop later every day.

The Chinese all pay attention to hard work. If you have money and don't make money, you are a fool. If you work hard, work harder.

This hard work has reached the last day of this year.Even if it is the busiest in history, everyone wants to have a beginning and an end.

When an enthusiastic aunt came to buy fried dumplings, she asked enthusiastically, "Why don't you see Spring Festival couplets posted at your house?"

Only then did Song Xu realize that they still had a lot of New Year's goods that they hadn't bought yet.

Forget about other things, there is no shortage of food and drink at home, but Spring Festival couplets do have to be bought!Not only to post in the store, but also at home!There is also the word "Fu", buy it big, the master is rich!

Many scholars who know a little bit of writing want to take advantage of the Chinese New Year to earn a wave of money to subsidize their families.

However, scholars also have good characters and ugly characters, as you can tell by the number of people around the stall.

Song Xu made the decision and squeezed the one with the most people. When he got it in his hand, he saw that the pen was smooth and crisp, and it was indeed a good handwriting!

At least he couldn't write it...

Xiaochun washed off the flour all over his hands, and together with him, he pasted up red banners in front of each door, with the word "Fu" upside down in the middle.The festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year immediately spread, making Xiaochun's face flushed.

Jiang Tiantian went to the backyard to serve dumplings, and two big geese fluttered up and down.

She smiled crisply: "Don't make trouble, I don't have any hands now!" But the big geese didn't listen, and still followed her, making her stumble, and it took a while to go back and forth.

Song Xu looked at the goose who was still trying to look around despite being locked outside the door, and couldn't help sighing: "It's really... a goose with a clear sexual orientation, a steel goose that is straight, and would rather bend than bend."

After a while, the dumplings were almost finished, Song Xu and Xiaochun didn't intend to continue.

As soon as he washed his hands and pushed open the door, Jiang Tiantian rushed over happily again.

"Brother Song Xiaochun! Look who's coming!"

The two looked at each other, and heard Mi Xiaofei's fuss. After a while, he carried a lot of things in his left hand and a young man with a tall belly in his right hand, and came to the backyard.

Song Xu and Xiaochun were startled, they quickly tidied up the kitchen, and moved two stools together for the man to sit on.

Mi Xiaofei said embarrassingly: "Brother Song, this is my husband, he is afraid that I will be worried if I go back late, so he insists on coming to pick me up..."

Song Xu knew from the first time he met Brother Mi Gao that he had a husband who was pregnant with a baby. Seeing him suddenly now, his heart was still flabbergasted.

Although he always talked about teasing Xiaochun about whether he was a child or not, it was the first time he saw this scene of destroying the three views with his own eyes, and he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

...Speaking of which, Mi Xiaofei actually showed affection in front of him! ?

Mi Xiaofei's husband looks very ordinary, and also wears plain clothes, no hairpins or accessories, but it makes people look very comfortable.

With a big belly and tenderness in his eyes, he smiled and said, "I'm causing trouble for Boss Song. Thinking about how much you take care of your husband, you brought gifts for years. They are all made at home, and they are not worth much." , you try something new, and you won’t have to buy it again.”

He smiled shyly: "I also know that it's useless for me to come here, but I always feel restless at home alone. Thinking about tomorrow is the [-]th year, I still come to pick up my husband home..."

Mi Xiaofei chuckled: "Oh, I'm sorry, my husband is good at everything else, but he's too clingy!"

Dog food is too straightforward, causing discomfort!Song Xu secretly thought, I've never been this showy before...

Xiaochun has been staring at the pregnant belly, and Mi Fulang noticed it, and asked him with a smile, "Do you want to touch it?"

Xiaochun's eyes lit up: "Can you?"

"Of course, if you put it on it, you will occasionally feel the doll move..."

Xiaochun squatted beside the husband, with curiosity and envy in his eyes, and gently put his hand on his stomach.After a while, he said in surprise: "It moved, it really moved!"

Mifflang laughed out loud, wondering why this little pair is so cute: "You are not young anymore, why are you so curious? When you are pregnant, you will also move..."

Xiaochun blushed.

"I, I, I...haven't conceived yet..."

After a big dinner that night, when the show was over, he secretly stopped the sixth uncle to get his pulse.

Although the sixth uncle was drunk, he repeatedly assured that his stomach was absolutely still.

Xiaochun couldn't tell what it felt like.

It wasn't an urgent matter at first, but if I mentioned it a lot, I would start to care about it.

Caring about caring, there is a bit of anticipation.If expectations are not met, it is easy to be disappointed.

Seeing a live pregnant Shuanger appearing in front of her eyes, Xiaochun was really envious.

Why can't I get pregnant?Is it because I didn't work hard enough at night...

If it still doesn't work in another two months, how can we lie in the village.

Thinking of this, he sighed slightly.

Mi Fulang held his hand, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't worry, this matter can't be rushed. You see, my husband and I have been married for three years, and we only had a baby at 21 this year. You are still young, so fate will come naturally." There will be... Your husband didn't rush you, did he?"

"No." Xiao Chun honestly shook her head, thinking about Song Xu, felt relieved in her heart, and couldn't help but smile.

Suddenly spring blossoms.

Song Xu fiercely shot death rays across from them.

Speak as you speak, what a little hand!Isn't Shuang'er a man?Can't Shuang'er and Shuang'er fall in love?Have you ever heard of homosexuality? ?

Looking at Song Xu's tangled expression, Mi Xiaofei couldn't say a word: "..."

What are you doing, your husband touched my husband and my child, did I say anything! ?

The big goose at the door suddenly quacked, and Jiang Tiantian also came to see Mi Fulang.

After another fuss, the two geese also approached step by step, looking curiously at the tall belly.

Song Xu was a little nervous, fearing that the geese would attack suddenly, but Mi Fulang reached out and patted their heads.

The two geese felt good, and they didn't dodge or dodge, and they cried happily.

Everyone was dumbfounded, Mi Fulang asked Jiang Tiantian: "What are they called?"

Jiang Tiantian was stunned: "...I don't know, I didn't name it!"

"Then start?... Xuexue, Baibai."

Jiang Tiantian, who had no idea, thought it sounded good no matter what, and said happily: "Then it will be white! You two have names!"

Mi Xiaofei's husband came around, waved his sleeves, and took Mi Xiaofei away, leaving behind two rather ordinary names and a local New Year gift.

Song Xu and Xiaochun stood side by side, looking at the things on the ground, feeling filled with emotion.

After Tian Xiaoqing sold the last dumpling, he asked strangely, "What are you two doing standing here? Huh, Mrs. Xiaomi has brought a lot of things, and I don't know how I got them here..."

Bacon and pickled vegetables, salted fish and chips, there are a lot of everything, and you have to put two bags in the sack.

Song Xu and the others came here and felt a little inconvenient.

"After all, it's a New Year's gift, and we can use many things during the New Year. It's too wasteful to put them in the store." Xiaochun frowned.

Song Xu thought for a while: "Then, Xiaoqing, go back to the village first, ask the village chief to borrow a bullock cart, and wait for us at the gate of the county."

"That's good, we'll clean up the store, and you can drive."

After all, it has been in business for so many days, and it is fried and fried. It takes a little effort to clean this small shop.

Song Xu felt a little fishy when he was doing it, but turned around and saw that Jiang Tiantian was still serious.

Although Jiang has been going home with them every night recently, there is also her small bed in the woodshed, and many things have been added.But in her heart, perhaps this shop, the original shelter, gave her a sense of belonging.

As the sun faded to the west, Jiang Tiantian came to the fence to check for any damage.

Looking at the golden red glow, she felt a little lonely.Although Song Xu and the others treated her very well and even took her home for the New Year, she had to admit that she was indeed a little homesick.

Home is a wonderful concept, with an intimacy that outsiders can never mix.

This year, she left her hometown for the first time to celebrate the New Year outside. I don't know if her parents and elder brother are okay?

The eldest brother would occasionally come to the shop to see her, but she hadn't seen her for a long time...

"Every day, every day!"

Jiang Tiantian vaguely heard someone calling her, thought it was an illusion, and didn't want to look up, but the mother whom he had been secretly missing just now really appeared in front of him!

In Song Xu's small shop, behind the stove in the backyard is a more secluded narrow alley, and usually few people pass by.

Because there is a gap between my shop and the next door, for the safety of the house, it is surrounded by a fence.

At this moment, my mother, whom I haven't seen for a long time, is looking at me across the fence!

The grievances in Jiang Tiantian's heart surged up.

She thought of her mother's unfeeling last time, but she also remembered that she had been together day and night for more than ten years, and she shouted hoarsely: "Mother..."

The woman is still dressed in the same way, with dilapidation and poverty written all over her body.

Her complexion was even worse than before, with an ominous sallow color.

"Tiantian, I know you're mad at us and we don't care about you, but you should come back tomorrow for the new year? Mom misses you so much..."

Tears broke the embankment, and Jiang Tiantian broke down in tears.

The child's desire for family affection is integrated into the bone marrow.

She is a girl who has never seen the world, has no ambitions, and has no ambitions of family, country and world.Since she was a child, she was indoctrinated with the mission of caring for her husband and raising her children, and she has a natural desire for a family.

She was really, really homesick.

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

The woman's eyes were also red, and she asked her eagerly: "Can you come back? Do you want to tell your boss? Will he agree?"

Jiang Tiantian nodded vigorously.

"Mother, mother, wait for me, I'll go and say something right away!"

She stumbled into the kitchen: "Song, Brother Song and Brother Xiaochun! My mother is here to pick me up!"

Song Xu was taken aback, and Xiao Chun frowned.

"Where is your mother?"

"Just behind..."

Song Xu followed Jiang Tiantian out to meet people, so Xiaochun found a bag, divided out some of the New Year's gift received, and packed it.

"...Tian Tian is a good child, you treat her well. When the first month comes, if I find that she is missing a hair, I will..." Song Xu didn't know what kind of cruel words to say, so he just made a fierce expression, but The woman was so frightened that she coughed again and again.

Jiang Tiantian looked nervously at Song Xu and then at his mother, making Song Xu not know what to say, so Xiaochun quickly intervened.

"Auntie, this is our annual gift to Tiantian. Take it back."

The woman thanked her repeatedly, and Song Xu pulled out a small section of the fence and let the thin Jiang Tiantian get out, so that the two of them would not have to detour.

Jiang Tiantian walked with his mother for a short distance, and when he turned his head and saw Song Xu and Xiaochun standing in front of the fence, the tip of his nose suddenly felt sour.

While they weren't real family, they were just too good to be true.

***

In a blink of an eye, only Song Xu and Xiaochun were left in the yard, and the newly released "Bai Baixuexue" was left.

"How long will it take for Xiaoqing to come back?"

"It will take a while, can you move that basket?"

Song Xu tried the weight on his hand, and said that there was no problem at all.

The two closed the doors and windows, checked it, and it started to snow again.

Xiaochun raised her head, and the snowflakes fell on her eyelashes, and soon turned into water droplets, and it was cold for a while.

Song Xu: "Let's go, go to the gate of the county and wait for Xiaoqing, otherwise it will be even more difficult to go when the snow is heavy."

"Fortunately let him come, otherwise it would be too much to walk back." Xiaochun paused, and then said: "But it doesn't matter, I can walk there, my physical strength is much better now."

Song Xu was so cute by him, and asked with a smile: "You are so powerful, so why don't you carry this basket?"

Xiaochun made a gesture to snatch it away, but was blocked by Song Xu.

Song Xu carried the basket on his back and led the goose, his whole body jingling.

"Brother Mo said he would come to our house for the New Year?" He asked.

"Yes, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow night. He is too busy, running around all day, the businessman is so hard..." Xiaochun was talking, and stepped into the shop in front of him.

Song Xu pulled him behind vigilantly.

"Who!?"