The reason why Liu Haizhong came to find Xu Qing was mainly because his two unsatisfactory sons were not only as good as Xu Qing’s academic performance when he was in school, but also the calligraphy he wrote was even more difficult to get to the table.

If they can see it, their sons will write it in their bangs and then paste it on the door of their own room so that everyone in the courtyard can see it.

Unfortunately, the calligraphy written by his two sons is worse than that of the other.

As a last resort, I had to come to find Xu Qing.

Xu Qing nodded to the second uncle and agreed.

On New Year's Eve, the second uncle gave me a pack of cigarettes and wrote a few words. For Xu Qing, it was a matter of ease.

Within ten minutes, Xu Qing wrote the Spring Festival couplets, Fu characters and some others in his bangs.

The second uncle showed joy, took the Spring Festival couplet, hurriedly handed Xu Qing a cigarette, then happily returned to the door of his house, shouted Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu out, and asked them to brush paste on the door of the house.

At this time, Xu Qing also brought three little ones to the door of his house with the Spring Festival couplets and the words "Fu". After finishing his busy schedule, he returned to the house and helped Xu Damao write Spring Festival couplets.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Xu Qing took Xu Damao's bicycle to the tailor shop and took out the new clothes of the three little ones, Xu Damao talked about this on the road.

At the same time, I gave Xu Qing one dollar and asked him to help me write it and post it again.

Therefore, after Xu Qing finished writing Spring Festival couplets for Xu Damao’s house, he also helped the old lady write it.

Anyway, there are ready-made ones in the red paper, ink, and brush house.

Besides, the old lady was in the yard and always treated the third child very well. Sometimes Xu Qing didn't come back from get off work, so she could help take care of her, so Xu Qing helped to write it.

The old lady stood outside the house with a cane and saw Xu Qing not only wrote Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu" for her house, but also posted them on it.

With wrinkled hands, they took out a handful of fruit candy from the house and gave it to the three little ones who followed Xu Qing.

The three little guys said thank you in unison to the old lady, and then followed Xu Qing back to his home.

At this time, the third uncle took Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang and helped everyone write the Spring Festival couplets in the Intermediate People's Court.

Of course, he also collected two cigarettes, all of which were carrying handfuls. After all, it was worth a few dollars.

Yan Bugui was very satisfied with this.

In fact, he wanted to come to the backyard to see if he could earn a few more packs of cigarettes.

However, Yan Bugui thought that since Xu Qing started writing Spring Festival couplets in the backyard, he had almost never received a pack of cigarettes in the backyard in the past few years, and people in the backyard had never taken the initiative to look for him.

Yan Bugui knew that there was no possibility, but he felt a little unwilling.

And he didn't want to go to the backyard rashly. If he was embarrassed, wouldn't he be so embarrassed about the third uncle in the courtyard?

So he sent Yan Jiefang to the backyard to see. If someone's door has not been posted, he will go there at that time.

But Yan Bugui waited in the Intermediate Court for less than 30 seconds, and Yan Jiefang, who ran to the backyard, turned around and came back.

When Yan Bugui saw it, he knew there was no chance. He turned around and took Yan Jiecheng, and walked back to the front yard.

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Qing was busy in the kitchen and started to do a big night, and all three little ones worked together to help.

The second brother Xu Aiguo went to the cabin next door to get tofu, white radish, cabbage, potatoes, and vermicelli.

The little girl and Xu Fengming were sitting on the bench in front of the stove to burn the fire, while the other helped the elder brother peel the onions and garlic.

Tonight's New Year, Xu Qing wants to cook a table of food so that his younger brothers and sisters can have a comfortable and fat New Year.

My life was hard in the past because the general environment was like this these days. Xu Qing could not change it with his own strength, but it was completely possible to improve his own living conditions.

Nowadays, there is a jar full of sticks in the two urns in the kitchen, and most of the white urns are urns.

This is not the few kilograms of white flour and hybrid noodles placed in the cottage next door. The food is enough for him and the three little ones to eat.

Xu Qing took out the pork he bought from the supply and marketing cooperative from the cabinet, cut it out a large piece, and used it to stew the meat. The remaining ones were used to stir-fry two meat dishes; the other was used to chop the stuffing and make dumplings.

As for the pork sent by the street office because he saved people and brought honor to the neighborhood, Xu Qing did not move for the time being.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Xu Qing made the big night with the joint efforts of his younger brothers and sisters.

Although there are not many dishes in winter, Xu Qing has made a lot of them in different ways.

A dish of stewed meat in an enamel basin, a plate of sour and sour potato shreds, a plate of stir-fried meat, and a plate of vinegar and cabbage.

Plus an enamel basin of stewed vegetables, which contained potatoes, tofu, cabbage, vermicelli, meat slices, and radish slices.

There is also a plate of tofu and stir-fried cabbage and a plate of cabbage and stir-fried meat.

The dumplings were also wrapped and cooked, and now they were all brought to the kang in the front room.

When Xu Qing was making dumplings, he found out the coins in the house, cleaned them all into the dumplings.

At this moment, the four brothers and sisters sat on the warm kang, eating the New Year's Eve dinner, and welcoming the arrival of the New Year.

Xu Qingcai made a lot of dishes, and the little girl was undecided for a moment and didn't know which one to eat.

I tried the fried meat, then raised my chopsticks and ate the sliced ​​meat in the stewed dish, then picked up the dumplings from the bowl, dipped them in vinegar and stuffed them into my mouth, making me very happy.

Xu Aiguo and Xu Fengming are like little girls, looking delicious and trying everything.

However, Xu Fengming was clever and although he tasted a few bites of each, he mainly kept eating dumplings, hoping to get the first to eat the coins that his elder brother had wrapped in it.

The little girl noticed it soon. Seeing her third brother Xu Fengming, she ate dumplings faster than her, she was a little anxious and turned her head and grinned at Xu Qing:

"Brother, you can help me eat too."

However, the little girl fought with Xu Fengming for a long time, but Xu Aiguo was the first to eat the coins.

Xu Aiguo laughed, held the coin in his mouth in his hand, and smiled and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm the first to eat it first!"

The little girl and Xu Fengming pouted at the same time and looked at the second brother with envy. Then she lowered her head and continued to eat the dumplings in her bowl quickly.

Within three minutes, the little girl also ate the coins, her face showed aura and shook her smugly towards Xu Fengming.

Xu Fengming scratched his hair with his chopsticks and looked up at his elder brother Xu Qing, his little eyes full of grievances.

Xu Qing was also a little puzzled. He had a lot of coins, but why did the third brother not have a single one in his bowl?

Xu Qing hurriedly picked up a few dumplings in front of him for his third brother.

Xu Fengming raised his chopsticks again and ate it. Without thinking, he bit the coin in one bite. He immediately showed joy on his face, spit out the coin, and showed off his little girl with a grin.

At about twelve o'clock in the evening, Xu Qing and his younger brothers and sisters stood on the snow in the yard and set off firecrackers.

At this time, firecrackers were crackling in the front and middle courtyards.

It can be said that the entire Sijiu City, at this time, was full of deafening firecrackers, and everyone was welcoming the New Year!
Chapter completed!