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As soon as the firecrackers ended, the phone rang. Zhang Taiping didn't have many people saved on his phone, and few people knew his number. If he could call at this time, there was no need to guess who it was. After answering the phone, it turned out to be someone.

Yang Wanli.

"Haha, Happy New Year, Brother Zhang. I called you just after twelve o'clock. The first person to speak in the New Year is not a beautiful woman. I must be disappointed, haha." Yang Wanli's cheerful smile came from over there.

She is obviously in a good mood now.

"Hey, it's fine even if you don't have beautiful women and handsome men. Are you ready for a little pain?" Zhang Taiping made a rare joke.

Yang Wanli, who was with his friends on the other end of the phone, heard this and thought of Zhang Taiping's rough and strong body. He shivered and said with a smile: "I can't bear this. Brother Zhang is still another person."

Go find a pretty boy."

Zhang Taiping chatted with Yang Wanli for a few more words, said some blessings to each other, and then hung up the phone. As soon as he hung up, the phone rang again. Zhang Taiping was a little surprised when he saw it, and it turned out to be Yang Ning's.

"Hello, Happy New Year!" Zhang Taiping first wished after answering the phone.

"Haha, Happy New Year. I have made several phone calls just now, and I am always on the phone. You just finished talking to a beautiful woman on the phone, right?"

Zhang Taiping said: "A friend." He didn't explain much.

The two of them said some blessings to each other, and Yang Ning simply hung up the phone, as if he had called just to say a few blessings. Zhang Taiping felt a little inexplicable when he looked at the phone, and shook his head just as he was about to put it away.

Putting the cell phone in his pocket, the ringtone started ringing again. This time it was not a phone call, but a text message, one after another, and it did not stop until there were five or six messages.

When the ringing stopped, Zhang Taiping started browsing one by one. Niu Junfeng, He Cheng, and Ye Qing each sent a text message. From these little things, you can get a glimpse of a person's personality. He Cheng's text message was obviously sent in bulk.

Come here, Niu Junfeng wrote it by himself, Ye Qing also wrote it by himself, just a few sentences.

It can be seen that Niu Junfeng is a Zhang Fei-like character. He may seem rough in appearance, but he has a delicate heart and can think things through. Ye Qing is a clerical worker, so he must be flawless in his work and he will definitely be able to write it himself.

What made Zhang Taiping a little surprised was that the fat man Huang Jun, whom he had met once before, actually sent a blessing text message.

Zhang Taiping stood at the door and answered the numbers one by one with blessing words.

After setting off the firecrackers, Fan Ming, who had been clamoring to survive the new year, couldn't hold it anymore and kept yawning. In the end, his upper and lower eyelids were so violent that he went back to his room to sleep in shame. Zhang

Taiping asked Cai Yazhi and sisters to go back to their room to rest.

They had to get up early to make dumplings tomorrow and prepare lunch for lunch during the day. It was impossible not to rest. They didn’t have Zhang Taiping’s abnormal physical fitness. After everyone else went to bed, Zhang Taiping came alone.

In the back room, the old man came to watch the night.

Before dawn the next day, the two parrots hanging on the garland started shouting "It's Chinese New Year, it's Chinese New Year" and woke up everyone in the yard.

Cai Yazhi got up early and started making dumplings, which was ready at six o'clock. First, she offered a few on a plate and put two sticks of incense to make chopsticks on the table in front of the ancestors' sacred tablets;

Master Zaopo offered two in front of him, and then everyone ate them.

There were seven people in total, and seven of the dumplings had coins in them. As he was eating, Yaya screamed, but he ate a coin and hit his teeth.

After a while, Yaya ate another coin, and Cai Yazhi also ate one. Fan Ming said enviously that the two of them were so lucky.

Zhang Taiping directly ate two coins in a row, and only the remaining two coins have not shown up yet. Fan Ming himself also wanted to eat a coin, but he had already played for a long time today and still didn't see a shadow. He looked at the bowl.

I really couldn't eat the last three dumplings inside. I lay on my back on the kang and patted my swollen belly and said, "I won't eat it, I won't eat it. I'm exhausted. It seems I'm out of luck." His tone was quite good.

Pity.

The faces of the other people were a little strange. They had basically finished eating the dumplings, and there were still two coins that were not visible. There were only three dumplings left that Fan Ming couldn't eat. So the hiding place of the two coins was obvious.

It's a metaphor. But what's ridiculous is that Fan Ming wanted to get a cup of coins so much that she even stopped eating the last three.

Zhang Taiping held back his laughter and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to eat?"

Seeing a few people with strange faces, they sat up and looked at the bowls that everyone seemed to be empty. Fan Ming suddenly woke up, climbed up and went to the bowl on the cabinet cover, using chopsticks to eat the three remaining dumplings one by one.

When I poked it open, there were indeed two coins.

Fan Ming was so happy that she didn't care about hygiene. She pinched out two coins with her fingers and held them up in front of everyone and said proudly: "Look, there are still two coins. I am also a very lucky person."

Everyone looked at Fan Ming, who was as proud as a little swan, and felt funny. They wondered who had touched the three dumplings just now.

After eating, the old man called a few people together to prepare for giving out lucky money.

Little Yaya Jingtian wore a brand new dress and dressed up like a little princess. In fact, in Zhang Taiping's house, she was indeed a little princess. Having a child during the Chinese New Year will make any parents, poor or miserable, think.

I made a new outfit for my child. The old man gave Yaya a brand new fifty yuan note as lucky money. The child

During the Chinese New Year, I always like to get lucky money from my elders, and feel the joy of having big money that I don’t usually enjoy. Yaya is the youngest in the family, so she receives the most lucky money. Basically everyone gives her a share.

, only Cai Yazhi saw that Zhang Taiping gave it to her and did not give it to her again. Husband and wife are one body, and one person represents two people.

The girls have been wearing brand-new clothes for a few days, and even Zhang Taiping symbolically put on custom-made new clothes and newly bought shoes. The old man also gave Cai Xiaomei and Fan Ming a piece of lucky money each. The money was not much and Ya

The number of Ya is the same. Although they are adults, they are still children in the eyes of the old man. The other Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi are not as good as water.

Yaya is a sensible child. She put most of the money into her mother's hands and asked her to keep it. She only put five or six yuan in her pocket and went out to play with the children. Five or six yuan is the most expensive among children of this age in rural areas.

It's already a pretty big sum of money.

The custom here in Guanzhong is not to go out on the first day of the Lunar New Year and celebrate the New Year at home. Only on the second day of the Lunar New Year do they start to pay New Year greetings and entertain guests. On the New Year's Day, Zhang Taiping's family did not go out and had a meal at home at noon.

It can be regarded as the most sumptuous lunch. The South is different from the North. In the South, the most sumptuous meal may be in the evening, while in the North, the most sumptuous meal is often at noon, and only some easy-to-digest and filling meals are eaten at night.

Food for belly.

The next day, villagers started coming to Zhang Taiping's house early in the morning to wish the old man New Year. The old man basically didn't charge medical fees when he practiced medicine in the village, and he was really capable of saving lives.

There are not a few people there, and many people have even been brought back from the gate of hell. It is also famous in several nearby villages, so those who came to pay New Year greetings today do not know the people in the village, but also some people from other villages.

Zhang Taiping's family never expected that so many people would come to pay New Year's greetings. They did not prepare meals for the guests in advance. Those who happened to come to pay New Year's greetings and give gifts just left their gifts and left without any intention of staying here to eat.

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When Zhang Taiping saw that everyone had this attitude, he didn't care. He didn't care. He accepted all the gifts. When he felt free, he sat down and had a cup of tea with the old man. When he didn't feel like doing anything, he just left.

And he himself did not stay in the house, but took the gifts he had prepared long ago to pay New Year greetings to the village chief's house. The village chief's house was entertaining guests on the second day of the Lunar New Year. He wanted to give the gifts like those who went to pay New Year's greetings on his own.

He left immediately after being released, but the village chief refused to let him go and insisted on staying for a meal before leaving.

In the third year of junior high school, I was entertaining guests at Old Man Qian’s house. Zhang Taiping had learned carpentry skills from Old Man Qian for a year and a half. Old Man Qian was considered half a master. Besides, the people who went to the mountains during this period got along well with him.

, he brought a gift to the house to say New Year greetings, and was stayed for a meal before being let go.

Zhang Taiping conveyed the greetings from Mr. Zhao, the head of the village, to the ears of his old man. The old man asked Zhang Taiping to prepare gifts to pay New Year greetings as a junior. Zhang Taiping went there on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, but he did not expect Zhao, who was usually deserted.

In the old man's yard

It is indeed quite lively and popular these days. Zhang Taiping saw that several old men in their 50s and 60s in the house were somewhat similar to Mr. Zhao, and guessed that these might be Mr. Zhao's sons. The people in the house might

They are all the branches and leaves of Mr. Zhao.

Zhang Taiping could feel the extraordinary aura of these people. They were all trained in high positions all the year round. Zhang Taiping stayed to eat, just sat with Mr. Zhao and drank a few cups of tea, then got up and left. Zhao

The old man didn't stop him either.

When he was going out, Zhang Taiping suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure. He took a closer look and found that it was the woman who had been observing Zhang Taiping at the flower and tree fair. When he saw Zhang Taiping, he looked over and nodded to Zhang Taiping with a smile.

.Zhang Taiping also nodded in response.

After going out, a dusty memory suddenly popped up, and Zhang Taiping remembered who this woman was. Mr. Zhao's granddaughter, his junior high school classmate, but at that time, this woman was a person who was afraid of chaos in the world, and followed her all day long.

She acted like a little girl behind Zhang Taiping's back, but she suddenly left without knowing what happened, and then there was no news from her.

After so many years, Zhang Taiping had almost forgotten her. Even if he remembered her, the image of the arrogant and domineering little girl who had been following him for many years was completely different from the current woman who was as angry as a poem. No wonder they didn't know each other when they met.

Zhang Taiping couldn't help but sigh: "Time is the best judge and can change everything."