Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night, according to the custom, the family has to go to the grave to light a candle, for the rest of the village, the graves are all over the hillsides around the village, which is naturally all over the mountains, but because there are graves everywhere, the candlelight can be gathered to be comparable to street lamps.

But Guo went to the house differently, the whole village is just two of their Guo family, and there are only five ancestors who went, and there are only five graves, and it won't be long before all five graves can be lit with candles, so that the candlelight flickers in the night.

After the candle is lit at the grave, a large family sits by the fire, which can be described as "gathering together", everyone knocks sunflower seeds and peanuts, grabs a few candies from time to time, and smiles on their faces at any time. Then talk about the interesting things of the family, of course, the so-called "interesting things of the family" actually refers to the troubles of the children in the family, and the family enjoys it.

For example, Guo went to wet the bed when he was six years old, and was beaten by his father, for example, Guo Xiaoqing was very naughty when he was a child, and often took advantage of his family's unpreparedness to quietly move the stool away, but the adult sat on the ground, and Guo Xiaoqing was naturally beaten.

Another example is that Guo Qu was deeply loved by his uncle when he was a child, and every time he lifted his butt with one hand and lifted it above his head, the result was tragic, when Guo Qu was lifted above his head, he was so frightened that he pulled Xiang, and Guo Qu's uncle just had a lump in his hand, and its shape was like the lump on the head of a lazy sheep.

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There are countless such troubles, after all, everyone has times when they are ignorant, and everyone has naughty things.

The dragon gate array was set up until twelve o'clock in the morning, which is rare in the countryside when there is no electricity, but the Chinese New Year's Eve is to be brightly lit.

The so-called bright lights are the candles in front of the incense altar, which should be lit all night. For this reason, the old man deliberately poured a candle with the thickness of Guo Qu's arm.

What should I do on the first day of the new year? There are local customs in various places, and Guo went to his house to make rice balls, boiled them with tender tofu pieces, threw a few sticks of mung bean flour, and then brought them to the incense altar to worship the ancestors again, and then set off firecrackers, and only then began to eat rice balls and mung bean flour after the ancestor worship was over.

Eating glutinous rice balls on the first day of the new year, in Guo Qu's view, this is the meaning of reunion.

Rural people with a little bit of craftsmanship will go out to work, and nowadays even young people who have no skills will go out to work.

In this kind of situation where there is less gathering and more separation, it is not uncommon for the boss to eat rice balls at the beginning of the year.

After breakfast, that is, glutinous rice balls and mung bean flour, it stands to reason that the family should stay at home and wait for the married relatives to come to pay New Year's greetings, but unfortunately the old man has no daughter under his knees, so this step is omitted.

But Guo Qu's mother must go back, because Guo Qu's grandparents are waiting for them to go to pay New Year's greetings!

And this year is different from previous years, this year's New Year's greetings have a different meaning for Guo to go home.

Guo Qu's father "changed his mind", and the harm caused to Guo Qu's mother's mother's family before, or the misunderstanding caused, must be apologized and clarified, which is necessary, because rural people keep etiquette, speaking of which, in this era when the country is becoming more and more developed, the last group of people who observe etiquette should be rural people.

Riding on three wheels, I went to the street and bought more than 10 packs of white sugar and more than 20 catties of liquor, which were packed in more than 10 bottles, and these things became New Year's gifts.

The tricycle drove very slowly, after all, there was a family sitting in the body, and the ice on the road had only melted for a short time, and it was muddy, so it was natural to be more careful, so Guo went on the road without speaking, and drove completely attentively, and the pressure was huge.

By the time the car drove down the road behind my grandfather's house, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Guo Qu's father and mother personally carried the back basket, and the backpack contained gifts, while Guo Qu held the girl, who was coldly coddled in the felt, with a pair of big black and white eyes, looking around curiously.

After walking for about ten minutes, I came to the back of my grandfather's house, and the dog barked and remembered that the family knew that the guests were coming, and the first to come out was Guo Qu's grandmother, who was worthy of being a mother and son, and as soon as the dog barked, she knew who was coming.

"Mingfen, my son~" Guo Qu's grandmother is a person who likes to shed tears, as long as she talks about moving things, she sheds tears, and when she talks about sadness.

His grandmother never called his mother a daughter, she always called her "my son", perhaps to show that she was never patriarchal.

"Grandma. Guo Qu shouted at the right time, and at the same time taught the girl to call her grandmother, "Quick, girl, call grandma, do you remember grandma giving you candy? Come and shout to me: grandma~mother~"

"Grandma~" The girl looked at the old man with her eyes and shouted with Guo.

"Huh~!" Grandma hurriedly let go of Guo Qu's mother, wiped her tears, and then walked over, first touched Guo Qu's head, and then teased the girl in Guo Qu's arms, "Come and hug grandma, grandma eats sugar at home here." ”

The girl glanced at her grandmother a few times, and in the end she didn't need Guo to speak, so she accepted her grandmother directly, and her fleshy hand stretched out from the small felt and was held in her arms, "Is Sun Xiaojing well-behaved?"

"Good~!"

"Is it okay to cry at home?"

"Don't cry~" The girl stretched out her little hand, wiped her grandmother's face, and said.

"Okay, good, grandma doesn't cry, my good grandson is really filial, grandma goes to get candy for my good grandson. So saying, he took the girl and walked into the house.

At this time, the door of his grandfather's house opened, and his grandfather walked out, followed by his eldest and second uncles, as well as two aunts.

"Here, hurry up and sit down. "Guo Qu's grandfather doesn't talk much, it seems that people don't welcome the arrival of Guo Qu's family, but in fact, he is just not good at expressing it, in the winter moon he built a stone wall for Guo Qu's new house for more than 20 days, and when Guo went to give the old man a few hundred yuan when he left, he left angrily, didn't ask for a penny, and Guo went very embarrassed.

However, this is also Guo Qu's own deserved, when his grandfather didn't go, that is, when Guo went here to collect waste, he said that he would help him repair the house, but Guo Qu still had to get money......

Is this Guo going, he admitted it himself, but the situation at the time, it was not okay not to give it, because he planned to say that the money was for his grandfather and grandmother, but unfortunately before he could say it, the old man left angrily, which shows that his temper is still quite hot.

"Grandpa. ”

Guo went for fear that this old man would still be angry, but he was relieved, and his grandfather hummed and nodded after he shouted "grandpa", which seemed to be a big deal.

"Uncle, second uncle. ”

"Hmm~"

"The eldest aunt, the second aunt. ”

"Well, come into the house, if you're hungry, my aunt will go and blanch mung bean flour for you to eat. Guo Qu's second aunt said with a smile.

As for his aunt, he went into the house without saying a word and began to tinker with mung bean flour, which shows that she is a pragmatic person, no wonder she will marry his uncle, it is really not a family, not a family.