The dining table was placed on the kang in Grandma's room, and the parents brought the dumplings over and put them on the table, and Hao Hao ran before and after helping to take the chopsticks and hand the bowl.

The dumplings were served on the table, and the father greeted the three children: "Haohao, Youyou, Didi, come to pay New Year's greetings to grandma." ”

The two old men happily sat side by side on the kang, and the smiles on their faces showed that the old man was satisfied.

There was a straw mat made of wheat straw on the ground under the kang, and the parents took the three children to kowtow to the old man to greet the New Year, and the cheerful shouts were very neat.

Yoyo unconsciously kowtowed to the New Year, and the action that he had never done before was done in one go, without any jerky feeling, and even the shouting was unusually in tune.

"Mom and Dad, Happy New Year!"

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Happy New Year!".

"Okay, Happy New Year, everyone!" Grandma took a brand new two-dime note and gave each of the brothers and sisters one to each, and took out a packet of fruit candy from the kang cabinet, and each gave two.

Youyou looked at the banknote in his hand, the 1962 version of the two-corner green yuan, or new, this is a rare item in 2050, worth more than 10,000 yuan, this red envelope is big enough.

I don't know what the current era is like?

The elder brother let his parents go to the edge of the kang and pulled Yoyo and his younger brother to greet their parents for the New Year.

"Mom and Dad, Happy New Year!"

Mom and Dad happily hugged them and kissed each of them.

Grandpa said with relief: "They are all good children, they have grown up!"

The lonely Yoyo suddenly came up with a childlike heart, she pushed her brother to stand beside her parents, and pulled her younger brother to shout together: "Brother, Happy New Year!"

Hao Hao scratched his head, took out two of his own sugar cubes from his coat pocket, and pretended to give them generously to his sister and younger brother.

Looking at his brother's tangled look, he smiled proudly and happily.

How did he know that Didi was doing the same, he pushed Yoyo to his brother's side: "Sister, Happy New Year!" shouted and stretched out his little hand, "Sister, send sugar."

The family laughed, the elder brother stuck out his tongue at Yoyo, and Yoyo pretended to be reluctant to take out a candy cube from his pocket and handed it to his younger brother.

Didi grabbed four pieces of candy in his hand and shouted happily, "It's a lot!"

Looking at his brother's empty hands, he took out two and stuffed them into Hao Hao's hands: "Brother, let's divide two, two for each person." ”

The face is taken for granted, and there is no reluctance.

"What a good boy!" said Grandpa boasting, carrying Didi to the kang table and sitting down.

"Okay, let's eat dumplings, and after eating, go to your uncle to pay New Year's greetings. Grandpa said and picked up the chopsticks.

The dumplings in the bowl of grandpa and siblings on the kang table are white-flour, and grandma and parents are black.

The brother and sister each had a fork made of bamboo chopsticks, and you put a mixed dumpling in your grandmother's bowl and took a bite.

Although the taste of the dumpling skin is a little hard, the aroma of the whole grains is particularly positive, especially the carrot and egg vermicelli filling is fragrant and delicious, the real pure green pollution-free delicious food, the food of later generations definitely does not have such a good taste, and the beauty of Yoyo smiled and squinted.

When Didi saw the white-floured dumplings, he shouted happily: "Eat flat food (dumplings), white flour flat food." He shouted in his mouth, and quickly inserted a dumpling in his hand and sent it to his mouth.

Biting into the dumpling skin, Didi's expression changed, and he protested with half a dumpling in his mouth: "Grandma, why don't you wrap meat and eat flat food, I don't like carrots." ”

Hao Hao also asked: "Grandma, didn't we make a big pot of meat flat stuffing, why do you wrap carrot filling?"

Grandma smiled: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, eat a vegetarian meal with vegetarian stuffing for a year, you can't eat meat stuffing, this is the rule handed down by the ancestors." ”

As soon as Grandma's words fell, Hao Hao wailed: "Why is there still this custom, eat this meal of white flour flat food a year, if it is meat filling, how good it is." ”

Mom spoke: "Our family is still good, there are scrambled eggs in the dumpling filling, you go to the second master's house to see, the filling is all carrots, and even the oil is reluctant to put more. ”

Grandma sighed, "We can still eat a meal of white noodles in our village, and the flat food in the village in the weir is mixed noodles on the morning of the fifth watch of the new year (the first day of the new year). ”

Youyou glanced at the mixed noodles dumplings in Grandma's bowl, and was even more puzzled, what age is this, and I can't even afford to eat a meal of white flour dumplings during the New Year.

However, the dumplings are really delicious.

"Grandma, you eat white noodles. Yoyo poured the white-flour dumplings in his small bowl into his grandmother's bowl.

"Grandma, mine is also for you. The elder brother and younger brother also fought to put white dumplings in their grandmother's bowl.

"Okay, they are all good children who are filial. Grandma smiled happily, but put the white-flour dumplings back in her hand for the child.

There were only five or six flat foods in each person's bowl, and Hao Hao quickly ate them.

"Go and serve it again, eat a few more bowls, and eat more to be stronger. Grandma commanded happily.

It seems that this is also a custom.

As a family, you eat dumplings with a bowl and I eat dumplings lively, and my parents happily come and go to the kitchen to serve everyone.

Yoyo's heart is full of warmth, and it feels good to have relatives!

After eating the dumplings and cleaning them up, Grandma put sugar cubes and cigarettes on the kang table. There are also dried sweet potatoes (made by cutting and drying cooked sweet potatoes in strips), which are packed in a small basket of delicate strips, with a layer of hoarfrost hanging from the crystal slices, as if a layer of white sand sugar has been sticked.

"Auntie, uncle, Happy New Year!"

"Grandpa, Grandma, Happy New Year!"

More than a dozen men, women, and children suddenly came into the courtyard.

They are the children of their grandmother's elder brother, and their cousins bring their families to pay New Year's greetings.

The whole family is dressed cleanly, the children are all new clothes, and the adults are all in green military uniforms. Everyone has ruddy faces, strong bodies, and hearty laughter, and it seems that the life of the uncle and grandfather's family is better.

Although Yoyo is young, he is still clear about several uncles, and the three uncles who came are the three sons of his grandmother's brother Han Yulin, Han Aiguo, Han Aijun, and Han Yuanchao. The youngest fourth uncle, Han Ai, is also a soldier, and he has not been in the army for many years and has not taken family leave.

The uncles are all tall and burly physiques, all of them are more than 1.8 meters tall, strong and handsome. The aunts and uncles are also handsome, and the children are all beautiful babies.

When Hao Hao and Di Di saw someone coming, they shouted happily: "Uncle, concubine." But he threw himself at a few children, and immediately made a mess of giggling.

The place in the house was small and could not kneel, the uncle pulled a broken mat from the grass hut and spread it in the yard, so that the grandfather and grandma stood at the door of the house, and everyone knelt in the yard and kowtowed to the New Year, and the adults and children hugged and knelt in a large area.

"Hurry up, get up!" Grandpa pulled this and that, grandma gave each child 2 dimes of New Year's money and 2 sugar cubes, and beckoned his nephew and daughter-in-law to eat dried sweet potatoes, while grandpa and dad beckoned their uncles to smoke.

"Our aunt is just a coincidence, this dried sweet potato is beautiful and delicious. The three aunts boasted while eating.

Yoyo took a dried sweet potato and put it in his mouth, it was sweet and delicious, and it was very chewy in the softness, which was much more delicious than the price of hundreds of yuan in later generations.

Sweet potato is a green health food sought after by everyone in later generations, protecting the heart, preventing cancer, lowering blood lipids, and the whole body is a treasure. The leaves are heartguards, the stems are golden stems, and the tubers have been developed into a variety of products, but they lack this natural sweetness.

After the lively New Year's greetings, Yoyo's parents took the three brothers and sisters to the village with their uncles to pay New Year's greetings.

The house where the Yoyo family lives is in the westernmost part of the village, which should be considered outside the village. To the east of the courtyard is a north-south road, which crosses the east and west streets behind the courtyard, which is also the main street in the village.

There is a well in the southeast corner of the intersection, and the platform is more than one meter high, and the bluestone slab is paved. The yard is more than 50 meters away from the village, and the open space in the middle is planted with willow trees.

After the intersection to the east, there is a slope on the east and west streets, the houses of each house and the main street are connected together, more than three meters higher than the ground level, which is also a characteristic of the river beach village, the first to build a house is a post (an earthen platform made of soil), and the courtyard of the house is built on the hill.

From west to east along the east and west streets, every family with elderly and elders has to go in to pay New Year's greetings.

Although it was not yet dawn, red lanterns were hung high at the gates of every house, and the whole village was full of joy.

The courtyards of each house were covered with straw mats, and people knelt on them and kowtowed. There are also those who are lazy behind the crowd, and they just bend their knees and pretend to be. Youyou has seen this formation in later generations, and this time it is an eye-opener.

There was a basket of dried sweet potatoes and a box of cigarettes on the table in the hall, and a few people had an extra plate of fruit hard candy.

The family came to pay New Year's greetings, enthusiastically gave cigarettes to men, and grabbed dried sweet potatoes for women and children to eat. Most people politely refused, a box of cigarettes is only twenty, which is not enough for everyone to share, that is, to put on a show.

However, it is honest to the children, and the children who follow the adults in the family to greet the New Year, their pockets are full of dried sugar sweet potatoes, and their mouths are not idle, chewing vigorously.

On the way, I met several groups of people who greeted the New Year, and everyone gathered together, more and more people, and the children ran happily before and after.

Compared with the WeChat New Year's greetings in later generations, it has a strong human touch.

Most of the people wore blue-black coarse cotton clothes, and the uncle and parents were not only tall, but also wore green military uniforms, which were particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

The whole village was turned around, and finally, when Yoyo's parents arrived at their uncle's house with them, it was bright.

My uncle's house is wide and bright, with five halls and three rooms in the east and west. The gate opens to the west, and on the south side of the Westinghouse, it is tall and wide. Facing the gate is a welcoming wall with a tuft of green bamboo painted on the wall.

There is also a yard half an acre of land on the east side of the house, in addition to the pigsty, sheepfold, chicken coop, toilet, and firewood shed. There are more than three points of vegetable garden, but this season, there are only a few garlic seedlings in the garden, revealing a slight greenery.

Uncle and grandfather Han Yulin are in their early fifties and are also wearing military uniforms. With a burly body and a height of more than one meter and eight meters, it seems that his uncles have followed his height.

Uncle and grandmother Zhou Chunlan looked much younger, looking less than fifty years old. He is more than 1.7 meters tall, weighs more than 140 pounds, has thick eyebrows and big eyes with slightly dark skin, and has a bright voice, especially cheerful.

She took the Youyou brothers and sisters and gave them one yuan of New Year's money, two pieces of white rabbit toffee and a handful of fried peanuts, saying that the second and third uncles brought them back for the New Year, which is unique in the village.

In the hall of my uncle's house, there is a plaster bust of a great man in the center of the table of the Eight Immortals, with a stack of red treasure books on the left and a stack of newspapers on the right.

When Yoyo saw the newspaper, his eyes lit up, but unfortunately he was too short to reach.

She habitually grabbed the clothes of her uncle who was sitting on the chair at the table and climbed up, it seems that she has done this kind of thing before, and her body is cool, and her uncle took Yoyo into his arms.

Finally, I got enough of the top newspaper, and I read the time first: January 30, 1975.

Yoyo felt that it was dark in front of him, according to historical records, this was an era of extreme material scarcity.

Yoyo hurriedly looked down, it turned out that this place belonged to Lu Province, Lu Province is a big province, and it is also one of the best provinces in the country.

Seeing Youyou's cute appearance grabbing the newspaper in a daze, her uncle teased her: "Youyou, how many words do you know?"

"Know, 1, 9, 7, 5, 3, 0, I'm amazing!"

"Well, great, it's still our leisurely smart. Uncle and grandfather boasted and grabbed a handful of toffee and put it in your pocket.

Yoyo pretended to be shy and slipped off his uncle and grandfather, and absentmindedly followed his sister and brothers to the street.

Hey, there are gains and losses, and the relatives in this life should be the benefits given by the great god of crossing. Life at home is okay for now, at least they can be fed, clothed, and healthy.