The most annoying thing about the New Year's holiday is to go to relatives, but for Chinese, this visit to relatives is an indispensable etiquette, and relatives who rarely come and go on weekdays are gathered together to drink and chat in these ten days or so, and play on the spot.

Fang Ning was most annoyed by his relatives, but there was no way, like his grandfather, they were the highest among the elders, only others came to visit them, and there was no reason for them to go to other people's homes to visit relatives, but if they wanted to mix up with their grandfather's age, it would take at least thirty or forty years.

Fang's father and Fang's mother took Fang Ning and Fang Wei to Lijiazhuang, and the first person to visit was the grandmother herself.

"Hello grandma, I'm giving you a New Year's greeting. ”

In the dimly lit room, the brother and sister saw their grandmother, an old man, leaning over on a soft couch, and two little cousins pinching her shoulders behind her back, and a burning charcoal brazier at her feet.

Seeing Fang Ning and them come in to greet themselves, Grandma Tai's face was a little more happy, her crooked body also sat up, and the old man who was dying also recovered a little spirit, smiled and nodded.

Fang Wei was closer to Grandma, so she got closer, and said obediently, "Is Grandma okay?"

Seeing Fang Wei looking up with her little face, so well-behaved and clever, Grandma was also a little happy in her heart, and while holding her hand, she nodded and said, "Your grandmother is in good health, she can live for a few years, nothing else, as long as you are thinking about me." ”

She said a few words, and then asked why Fang Ning's grandmother didn't come.

Fang Ning was afraid that his grandmother would blame, so he hurriedly said that our grandmother is here, grandma is entertaining grandma at home, and there are also some relatives and neighbors in the village who come to pay New Year's greetings or something, and grandpa can't leave for a while.

Grandma nodded, she didn't mean to be unhappy, among her sons and daughters, although the second daughter was illiterate, she was also really kind to her old mother, unlike the other younger daughters, who were always slack in doing things, and blamed each other for a pot of.

Although she is old, she is not stupid, not to the point of Alzheimer's, who is good to her and who is not good to her, she knows clearly in her heart.

After Fang Ning and the others visited their grandmother, Fang's father and mother also came over to catch up with their grandmother.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, they went to the eldest uncle Li Tianbao to pay New Year's greetings, and finally went to the younger uncle Li Xibao to pay New Year's greetings, and then had lunch.

After the ice disaster, everyone had a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, and everyone was jubilant.

Because there were a lot of relatives who came to their house to pay New Year's greetings this time, they simply held a banquet, and the little uncle also specially brought two cooks to come over and take charge of the spoon.

Fang Ning looked around, there were relatives who knew but couldn't name them, relatives who didn't know and couldn't name them, and relatives who had a good relationship, everyone was chatting very enthusiastically, plus the people serving the dishes were shuttling between the banquets, the scene was very lively.

Fang Ning and the others were eating the banquet, listening to the little uncle standing in front of the stage chatting about how he had survived this once-in-a-lifetime ice disaster in fifty years, thanking everyone for their unity, thanking the government for their support, and so on, anyway, everyone should only listen, and they wouldn't take it seriously, so they just let it go.

He also sighed a little, the maternal population on his grandmother's side is too large, not to mention other people, let's just say that his grandmother gave birth to a total of nine children, except for two who died young, there are still seven left.

Now like their grandmother, their generation is also an elder of the elders, not to mention the descendants of the father, their generation has bred countless children and grandchildren, spreading branches and leaves, passing incense, in terms of the flourishing population, Fang Ning's family is really incomparable, but there are many disadvantages of a large population, at least it is not easy to feed such a large family.

Fang Ning took a few mouthfuls of food and put it in his mouth, and was patted on the shoulder, and when he looked back, he saw a tall young man in cotton clothes holding a rice bowl, smiling at him, and saying, "Isn't this our little nephew? Why didn't you come to greet us?!"

"Happy New Year, Uncle Hui, you guys are also eating here!" Fang Ning hurriedly got up.

"Isn't that?" Hong Huiping took a bottle of beer from the dining table next door, picked two plastic cups and filled them with beer, threw a glass to Fang Ning, and took a sip of beer himself, and then said: "We are all relatives, of course we also eat here, by the way, why didn't your grandma and grandma come?"

He saw Fang's father, Fang's mother, and Fang Wei at the next table again, and nodded at them and greeted them warmly.

Fang Ning picked up the wine glass and drank it, touched it, and said with a smile, "Yuezhou's grandmother has come to our house, grandma is entertaining at home, and grandpa is at home to entertain relatives who come to pay New Year's greetings, so it is enough for us to go to relatives." ”

"Oh, I see, I'll go over and say hello to your parents first! ”

"Got it, Uncle Hui!"

Hong Huiping squeezed away a few guests and went to Fang's father's table for the banquet. Fang Ning looked at his distant back a little distracted, the young man named Hong Huiping in front of him was the son of the sixth aunt, his mother was the sixth among the grandmothers, and she was the most loved by his wife and grandmother. Of course, these are not the point, the point is that their family will be greatly involved with their family in the next ten years.

The sixth aunt and grandmother have had the best relationship since childhood, so the relationship between father, aunt and Hong Huiping is also very harmonious, and the two families have helped each other for five or six years.

But later, Hong Huiping entered the pyramid scheme, and at the same time the whole family fell into the pyramid scheme, and later they even dragged many relatives of Lijiazhuang into the pyramid scheme. When there was no way to deceive them later, they set their sights on the Ning family, although the grandparents did not enter the pyramid scheme, they also understood that the thing was illegal, so that the relationship between the two families broke down like fire and water!

However, at the moment, the relationship between the Hong family and the Fang family has not broken down, so Fang Ning can't look at them with colored glasses.

In the final analysis, Hong Huiping is also a poor person who is confused and astray in the direction of life.

"Brother Ling, sister-in-law, Happy New Year!" Hong Huiping came over to say hello.

"Huiping, Happy New Year, why didn't your parents come?" asked Fang's father.

Hong Huiping replied with a little stuttering, and it took him a long time to say, "During the ice disaster, my mother fell in the yard, and the hospital in the town had no electricity at that time, so I had to go to the county people's hospital to take a film, and found that my lower leg was fractured, and now I am hospitalized in the county people's hospital, and my father is in the hospital with my mother." ”

Dad Fang was a little surprised, and he didn't eat anymore, so he pulled Hong Huiping to the side and asked carefully, "Is it so serious?" ”

"No, no, no, she's not quite serious, you better wait for her to be discharged from the hospital before coming to visit. Hong Huiping hurriedly waved his hand, as if he was a little embarrassed, and then opened the topic, hurriedly said a few words and left.

Fang's father was still inexplicably strange, why did my aunt fall and get injured, and her son didn't let us go to see it?

There were relatives next to him to point out that the sixth aunt was not injured by herself, but pushed by others when she was fighting next door, which was a loss of face, and they didn't want to make a big fuss, so they didn't publicize it everywhere.