Chapter 38 New Year's greetings at Grandma's house
The second uncle's family left after the third day of the new year, and they stayed at home for three days, and rushed back to the fifth day of the new year, because it seems to be popular in the capital to break the fifth day.
Anyway, the second uncle's family came and went in a hurry, and during the second year of junior high school, my aunt Zhang Ying's family also came to pay New Year's greetings, and Zhang Yu's family had a family banquet.
It's this procedure almost every year, and after eating, the whole family takes a photo together, which is considered a family photo a year.
Every time he looks at these family photos taken year after year, Zhang Yu always prays in his heart, hoping that no one will ever be missing from this family and this photo. A family, neat and tidy, that's called a family!
In fact, Zhang Yu is already full of happiness, but their family is harmonious and beautiful, and the whole family can get together all year round and have a reunion dinner. If you compare it with those families who fight and contradict each other for three days, make their family inferior to strangers for the sake of financial interests, or even become enemies, their family is simply too good.
Although the second uncle's family is far away and not so close, it is a family after all. My aunt's house was close, although they rarely came back to help because they were busy with business. But when people are around, when there is something, they are also on call.
Therefore, Zhang Yu's family is happy and contented! And the children who grow up in such a family are healthy and sunny in their hearts!
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On the morning of the fourth day of the new year, I saw off the second uncle's family, Zhang Yu and his parents, and the three of them took a train to Chang County, and then took a taxi to my grandmother's house.
Mother Yu Fang can't go home a few times a year because of work, so she usually stays for a few more days during the Chinese New Year. And these few days are also the days when grandma's family has the most and has a reunion.
Grandpa has five children, three sons and two daughters, Zhang Yu's mother Yu Fang is the third, she has two older brothers above, and a younger brother and a younger sister below.
Zhang Yu's uncle and uncle are both in Chang County, one is a farmer at home, and the other is doing business in the county. The uncle and aunt stayed in the provincial capital to work and settle down after going to college.
There are many families, and it is difficult to get together in a year, so only during the New Year and holidays, can we have the opportunity to get together and everyone is lively.
Because I take care of Yu Fang, as well as my brother-in-law Yu Hua and my sister-in-law Yu Jia, the annual gathering is arranged after the third day of junior high school and before the eighth day of junior high school. Because after the eighth year of junior high school, I have to go to work, and before the third year of junior high school, I have to go to relatives and friends or something.
When it was almost ten o'clock, Zhang Yu's family arrived at his grandmother's house. As soon as I entered the door, I heard a buzzing sound in the house, and there should be a lot of people talking.
Sure enough, after entering the house, I saw that my grandmother's house was full of people. The kang was full, and there were sitting and standing on the ground.
Grandparents, two uncles and concubines, three members of the eldest cousin's family, three members of the second cousin's family, three members of the second uncle's family, three members of the brother-in-law's family, and three of the aunt's family, a total of nineteen people, the room is full of people.
Now that the three members of Zhang Yu's family are here, there is no place to put their feet.
"Oh! My aunt is here! Auntie, I miss you!" Yu Guomei, who was sitting at the door of the kang, saw Yu Fang coming in with the door curtain, and jumped to the ground with a rub, holding Yu Fang's arm and shaking it non-stop.
"Meimei, this girl, is just a pain! Come on, come on, let my aunt see, she is suffering from studying outside, right? Look at it, it's all dark, and she's thin!" Yu Fang likes this niece very much because she doesn't have a daughter.
In addition, when Yu Guomei and Zhang Yu grew up together when she was a child, she would not worry about her son and often came back to see her. This back and forth is also very fond of Yu Guomei, who also lives in her grandmother's house.
And in the house, there are two and a half children in the corner, a boy is named Yu Guoxiao, and the girl is called Wang Xinyue, the son of his uncle Yu Hua and the daughter of his aunt Yu Jia.
Yu Guoxiao looked at Yu Guomei, the eldest sister who was coquettish in front of Yu Fang, and pouted, and muttered: "Sycophant! ”
And Wang Xinyue next to him was quiet, listening to him, just laughing and not speaking.
The grandmother, the eldest concubine, the younger concubine, and the little aunt sitting on the kang, except for the grandmother, all got up and wanted to greet Yu Fang.
"Oh, don't move, you're all family, you're polite!"
As she spoke, Yu Fang took Yu Guomei's hand, took off her shoes and went to the kang, and sat down next to her grandmother on the kang.
And Zhang Yu and Zhang Muye can only have a place to enter the house after Fang Shangkang.
"Mom and Dad, Happy New Year! Your two elders are in good health, right?" The first thing Zhang Mu did when he entered the door was to greet the two old men for the New Year.
Kowtowing is not popular here, otherwise, the first thing they will do when they enter the door will kowtow.
"Grandma, grandpa, happy New Year! Xiaoyu has given your second elder a New Year's greeting! I wish you two elders good health and a long life!" Zhang Yuye followed behind his father and entered the door to greet the two old men.
"Okay, good, all right! Come into the house, it's cold outside!" The old couple grinned happily when they saw that the eldest girl's family had also arrived, and they were almost able to see the back molars.
Then, Zhang Mu began to greet his uncle and second uncle: "Big brother and second brother, sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, have a good New Year!"
"Okay, all right, come and sit, don't stand, look like a foreigner!" At this time, as the eldest son of the family, the uncle got up and arranged the seat.
Zhang Yu also began to worship the New Year, the eldest uncle and second uncle, the younger uncle and aunt, the eldest cousin and the second cousin, and a group of family members with foreign surnames, none of them were pulled, and it took five minutes to finish shouting.
After everyone is noisy, it's time for grandma to arrange things.
Every year, it is arranged by her grandmother, and she is a person who recognizes old reason, so she almost always arranges for her daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law to work and cook. Because she believes that her daughter-in-law is a family member, and after her daughter marries, she is a person with a foreign surname and is considered a guest.
So, of course, there is no reason to let the guests do the work!
But Yu Fang is a person who can't be idle, and she helps to pick up every year, which makes her daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law feel a lot more balanced.
But Aunt Yu Jia, it's impossible to work. She was born late and was the youngest, so she almost never did housework. This has developed the problem of her "lazy and lazy".
And she has been grumpy since she was a child, or bold, so if she hadn't been lucky enough to find her brother-in-law Wang Yanbing, a good-tempered man, she would have divorced a long time ago.
A large family, the men ate melon seeds together, and the women were busy cooking and picking up food. And the kids get together and play with something they like.
For someone as old as Zhang Yu and still working, he will not be in the list of children. So he also followed the men, munched melon seeds in the house, and listened to their gossip.
And like Yu Guomei, although she is not young, she is still studying, she is not conscious at all, and she thinks she is a child, so she came to Yu Guoxiao and Wang Xinyue, and played games and gossiped with him.
Last year, my uncle's family had a good harvest, and the white potatoes planted were sold for a lot of money, about 50 acres of land, and the income was less than 300,000 yuan. Moreover, the corn planted by the second crop dealer sold more than 1,000 acres of land. So on the whole, the uncle's family has an income of more than 300,000 yuan a year, less than 400,000 yuan.
And the eldest cousin grows out-of-season strawberries because of the greenhouse vegetables, so his income is more, almost 500,000.
The second cousin raises a big car, although it is hard and dangerous, but he earns a lot of money, and he earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The two uncles and aunts, although they are in the provincial capital, are both working-class. said that he was a white-collar worker, but he didn't earn as much as his uncle's family. However, the second uncle's family has opened a wholesale store in the county for so many years, so they have an income of 1.8 million yuan in a year.
Zhang Yu's family is similar, he is considered a salaryman, and he belongs to the group that is less than the above, and there is no less than that.
But Zhang Yu didn't say that this year, his salary commission for sales, plus the income from live broadcasts, is also more than 200,000. In fact, his salary commission is more than 100,000 yuan, and the remaining more than 100,000 yuan are all income from live broadcasts in the past two months.
Originally, there could have been more, but he went abroad for a spin and spent tens of thousands of dollars.
A large family, talking and laughing, finally opened at 12 o'clock at noon.
Because there were many people, three tables were set up, and one table on the kang was sat by women and children. There are two tables on the floor, and the men are sitting, and there are three tables anyway, which are wide and spacious.