Through the small days of farming

"Brother Chen! Brother Chen!!"

Someone outside shouted loudly, the name was Chen Mingren, and it was still snowing outside, so he put on his coir raincoat and opened an umbrella to go out to watch.

"Dali, why did you come to find me?" Chen Mingren asked in surprise.

He knew Dali. He was one of the people who came to help build their house before, and he worked very hard.

"Actually, it's nothing. My house was collapsed. I wonder if I can ask you to help fix the roof?" Daniel asked, scratching the back of his head.

He came here in the wind and snow, and the roof of his house collapsed suddenly. Fortunately, the hole that collapsed was not in the room where they slept, so no one was hit.

It's just that they can't live in their house now, the weather is so cold now, and the snow is still drifting into the house, so their house must not be able to live in people, so they will first borrow and live in the old man's house next door to their house.

Chen Mingren said: "Okay, shall we go now?"

"No, no, no," shook his head vigorously, "I just came here to say something first, and come back after the snow stops."

"it is good."

"I still have to go to the next house, so I'll go first." Dali smiled at him gratefully, and walked to the next house.

"Who is Mingren?" Bai Niannian and Ning Ge'er played backgammon and took the time to ask.

"Dali's roof was crushed by the snow, ask me to help?" Chen Mingren shook off the snow on his body, put away the oil-paper umbrella, and said by the fire next to the brazier.

"The roof collapsed? Is their house okay? Has anyone been hurt?" Upon hearing the news, Bai Niannian stopped what he was doing and asked worriedly.

If the snow on the roof is not cleared for a long time, it will indeed be crushed and collapsed. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Their house is newly built, so it will not collapse so quickly, so the roof of their house is usually cleared of snow before dinner at night, and it is enough to clear the snow again the next day.

"No one was injured. It's not so convenient for a family to live in someone else's house now. It's not good if there is too much snow in the house."

"The snow has stopped, Awei and I will go there."

Shen Wei smiled and said, "No problem."

The snow gradually became smaller, Chen Mingren paid attention to the snowfall outside, and immediately took Shen Wei to Dali's house after the snow stopped.

"Take your umbrella." Seeing that the two of them wanted to go out empty-handed, Bai Niannian took two umbrellas and stuffed them into their hands, so they could use them when it snowed.

Not long after Chen Mingren and the others left, Bai Niannian said uncertainly: "Brother Ning, listen, is someone calling my name?"

Ning Ge'er held his breath and listened for a while, then said with certainty: "Well, someone is calling your name outside."

After opening the door, Bai Niannian really wanted to turn around and leave, but it was his eldest brother and his wife, dressed in rags, not much better than the beggars in the town.

Wearing tattered clothes, if he hadn't lived with them for more than ten years, he almost didn't recognize the two of them.

What happened to the two of them to become like this?

It's really heartwarming.

"Brother, don't you know what you are looking for? I have made it very clear before! It is best for our two families to stay away from each other forever." Bai Niannian said with a good temper, he is now a member of the Chen family , not from the Bai family.

Come to him whenever you have something, are these two fools?Why do you think that if you come to him, he will definitely help them?It would be nice if he didn't hit the rocks.

"Brother Nian, take us in! We really have nowhere to go except here." Bai Huang knelt down with a 'plop', crying bitterly.

Bai Niannian jumped to the side, avoiding his movements, he couldn't bear this great gift.

"If you have nowhere to go, don't you know you will be in the village? What's the use of coming to me?" Bai Niannian said mercilessly.

If there is no courtyard in the town, there will be nothing. He doesn't believe that they will have nowhere to go. It can be seen that they came to him to save face, but what does it have to do with him?

But they also seemed to be a little careless, their clothes were torn and their bodies were dirty, and they seemed to know that they were people who had been hungry for several meals.The fingernails that grabbed his trousers just now betrayed the two of them. Have you ever seen a person who is not full and dirty, but his fingernails are so clean that they are not stained with dust?

Anyway, he hadn't seen him before, even if they really had trouble, they shouldn't be the only two of them, maybe they would drag their families to join him, and rely on children's tricks to force them to submit.

Bai Niannian's guess was right, they were here to win sympathy, and they wanted to make some money from Brother Nian, even if they couldn't make a fortune, they still wanted to live in their house, so as to save money for the New Year.

At first they took away their family's money, and after a while even the house was gone, but the money in Bai Cong's hand was divided into several parts and hidden in different places.

He was cruel, took money from another place, rented this yard, and planned to visit the yard after a while and buy another one.

But people are not as good as heaven. Recently, a lot of refugees have come to the town, and there are all kinds of swindlers. Bai Cong's family met a thief who was obviously a habitual offender. He took the box under his bed. After leaving, the silver inside was gone, and Bai Cong always thought that the thief stole their silver.

They went to report the case, but now the Yamen is very busy. They went to report the case for several days, but there was no news at all.

There was really no penny in the house, and it was ransacked by thieves, and even the food in the house was reduced a lot.

There was only a little silver left in Bai Huang's hands, and after a while, they didn't have a single coin in their hands.

Take the children in the family and go to their grandpa's house to eat and drink for free for a while, until their grandpa couldn't see it and drove them home in despair.

The night before they left, the two of them sneaked away with their bags on their backs, leaving the two children at their grandfather's house.

Back in the town, they had no money in hand, so they came up with Bai Yong's idea, but Bai Yong and his wife are not fuel-efficient lamps, so they insisted that they didn't take advantage of the slightest.

After staying in the town for a while, they sold part of their family's grain storage for money, and after they ate the rest, they heard that Bai Niannian made a fortune by making chestnut snacks and cakes.

Putting on ragged clothes and covering it with mud, they braved the snow and walked to Bai Niannian's house in order to be realistic.

"Brother Nian, we know we are wrong, so you take us in for this winter, and we will leave as soon as the winter is over." Mrs. Bai Huang begged.

"Mingren should be back later, if you like to squat outside, just squat outside." Bai Niannian was too lazy to watch them perform outside, even with clothes on, it was still very cold.

Seeing that he had finished speaking, he really closed the door. Mrs. Bai Huang stood up and looked at Bai Cong, "What shall we do now? I have said a long time ago that Brother Nian doesn't like this anymore."

I couldn't help complaining to him, "If only you had hidden the money back then, you wouldn't need to beg for help now."

"If it wasn't because you didn't lock the door at night, thieves could get in there?!" Bai Cong also endured it for a long time, keeping his anger under control.

"Oh, you still have the ability to talk about me?" Mrs. Bai Huang said angrily.

"Think about it now, what should we do? We're cold and hungry. When Chen Mingren comes back, be careful not to be beaten." The snow drifted into his neck, and Bai Cong shivered, and suddenly came to his senses.

"This big house is much more magnificent than our house in the town." Bai Huang controlled his emotions, and then said sourly.

Looking at their magnificent house, tall walls, and the money he calculated they might earn, Bai Cong's eyes flashed fiercely, and he turned his head and said to Bai Huang: "I have a solution, let's go first. Back to town."

"Brother Nian, what's the matter? Who are the people outside? You look unhappy." Brother Ning asked.

"Two annoying people." Bai Niannian felt sullen for a while and then he was relieved. What were those two people trying to come to the door with?

Having not heard from them for so long, I almost forgot the existence of the two of them.

"Are you angry? Continue the backgammon game we haven't finished playing. I'm sure I can beat you this time."

"That's not necessarily true." Bai Niannian put aside his worries and began to compete with Ning Ge'er.

For the next period of time, neither of them appeared, so Bai Niannian put them down, and soon it was New Year's Eve.

On the day of the New Year's Eve, they got up early in the morning to prepare the sacrifices for worship and prepared a lot of dishes.

It was extravagant, and fried a lot of croquettes. When he saw Ning Geer's croquettes, Bai Niannian suddenly remembered the sweet potato balls he had eaten before. It is greasy, and there are a lot of sweet potatoes at home.

The two of them experimented enthusiastically, and Ning Geer could also make fried oil slots.

Knead the flour into a dough, which is similar to the process of making dumplings. The stuffing inside is fried peanuts. After wrapping, put it in the oil and fry it. When it floats up, you can pick it up and put it aside.

It is best to put it for a few days before eating, otherwise it is easy to get angry.

Ge'er Ning made the best looking one, his came next, and then came the two big men and the little ones.

Squeezing and pinching, Bai Niannian couldn't help pinching an ingot-shaped one, and the others were also inspired and no longer stick to one shape.

The shapes that were pinched out in the end were all kinds of strange and strange. Several little guys wanted to pinch them into puppies, and finally they pinched them into four different shapes.

Everyone gave full play to their creativity and worked (played) for more than half an hour before consuming the dough.

There are as many fried oil slots as there are in a large pot, put them in the cabinet, and then start to prepare the things needed for the sacrifice.

Distributed a lot of snacks to a few little guys, asked them to wear hats and clothes, scarves and gloves, to ensure that they would not get cold when they went out, and let them go out to play with the little friends in the village, and return near noon Home.