"Hurry up, get up!"

Guan Xiaojun was still curled up in the quilt, his body was suddenly cold, the quilt had been lifted by Guan Yang, and he was so cold that he jumped up from the bed in an instant, "I'm going to die!"

Guan Yang smiled and said, "Get up, it's almost dawn!

At this time, the red candles in the room had been lit, and the flickering flames lit up the whole room, and today was the day when the candles were in charge of the night, and the kerosene lamps had taken a back seat for the time being.

Guan Yang was dressed in floral clothes, with a pair of sleeves on the sleeves of her jacket, and a bow tied on her head, the whole person looked energetic and beautiful, she excitedly took out the clothes in Guan Xiaojun's second leather quilt, "Hurry up and get dressed, the dumplings are cooked!"

Guan Xiaojun was helpless, glared at his sister, and reluctantly put on his clothes.

The new cotton jacket, new cotton pants, and boots are also new cotton boots made by Lu Xin'e, and when they get out of bed, from autumn clothes to autumn pants, to socks and cotton clothes, they are all new inside and out.

When I walked out of the door, I found that it was not yet dawn, and there were candles burning on both sides of the doors of each room in the courtyard, and the portrait of the door god on the door flickered in the light of the candles, as if it was going to come to life at any time.

At this time, you can see that there is a layer of sesame stalks scattered on the ground in the yard, which is a local custom, and the sesame stalks are sprinkled into the yard in order to prevent the broom star from entering the door, it seems that the sesame stalk will break when you step on it, and the noise is too loud, so the broom star will be scared away.

According to this statement, it seems that Jiang Ziya's wife is really not very bold, because his wife is a broom star.

"Let's kowtow to our family first!"

After Guan Xiaojun's mind came to his senses, he walked in front of Guan Hongda and his wife with his sister Guan Yang, "Grandparents, Happy New Year!"

The two knelt down together and kowtowed to Guanghongda and Wang Xinfeng.

Guan Hongda was happy, and pulled the two up with a smile, "This kid, what's the kowtow, don't get your pants dirty!"

Rural customs, every Spring Festival, the younger generation has to kowtow to the elders early in the morning, after kowtowing at home, but also go door to door to kowtow to the elders' homes, one morning, most people have become kowtow worms.

Guan Hongda took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Guan Xiaojun, "Take it, spend it!"

handed Guan Yang ten yuan again, "Yangyang, study hard and strive to be admitted to university!"

Wang Xinfeng also gave the two of them a dollar each.

In this era, there are very few people who can afford to give ten yuan for the New Year, and it is not even too common in the city, and today's Guan Hongda is wealthy, plus there are only two children in the family, so there is such a luxury.

After kowtowing to Guan Yunshan and Lu Xin'e, the sister and brother had another ten yuan in their hands, which added up to more than 20 yuan, which was half a month's salary for an employee.

The two returned to the house, Guan Yang asked Guan Xiaojun for the money in his hand, and stuffed the two ten-yuan ones into the piggy piggy bank together with his own ten-yuan tickets, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and look excited, "This year is much more than the previous year!"

The New Year's money given to them by the family last year was only one dollar per person, which is already a lot, but now it is ten yuan per person, which is really beyond Guan Yang's expectations, and it is no wonder that she is a little excited.

In this era, ten dollars can already buy a lot of things.

After greeting the family, the dumplings have already come out of the pot, and the dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year are vegetarian filling, and they can't be left when eating, so the dumplings for Lu Xin'e and Guan Yang's sisters and brothers are not full, just worried that they will eat leftovers.

After the two sisters and brothers finished eating dumplings, when they were about to go out to pay New Year's greetings, Guan Hongda said to the two: "Go to your third grandfather's house and kowtow!"

Guan Yunshan's face changed, "What are you doing at his house?"

Guan Hongda sighed, "Go, you take the children on a trip, let them come over for a meal at noon!"

Guan Yunshan was very unhappy, "I'm not going!"

Guan Xiaojun knew the reason why his father didn't go, because the third grandfather of his family was really too disagreeable, and the two families had a great grudge.

This matter starts with Guan Hongda.

Guan Hongda's grandfather has four brothers, the eldest is Guan Hongda's grandfather, the second died early, the fourth escaped famine and ran outside the gate, only the third family lived a very nourishing life, because he was a small landlord in the entire Guandimiao Village, with more than 100 acres of land, even in the famine years, it was enough for his own life.

Guan Hongda's father also died early, and he died when Guan Hongda was one year old.

The pillar of the family died, leaving only Guan Hongda's mother and his two sons.

The old woman didn't eat or drink, and the milk was not enough for her two sons to eat, so she went to borrow food, but she couldn't borrow it at all.

Seeing that the three children were going to starve to death, the old woman thought about surviving one first, after all, Guan Hongda was a little older, and the old woman wanted to let her eldest son live, as for the second son, she could only occasionally let him drink a little milk, and most of the milk was given to Guan Hongda.

In this way, the second son couldn't eat enough, and the hungry hair fell down in tufts, scratching the old woman's heart one after another with blood marks, and the son was hungry like this, and the old woman's heart was very distressed.

But although the third master was kind-hearted, the third grandmother was ruthless and vicious, and resolutely refused to give it, so she gave a bowl of millet.

Later, Guan Hongda's younger brother crawled on the ground hungry, and when he crawled to the third master's house, the third grandmother was eating, and she held the bowl and watched the child die on the threshold.

Since then, the two sides have made a great enmity!

Later, life improved slightly, Guan Hongda's mother sat in front of the third master's door and cursed as long as she was free, until she died, and the old woman was cursing the third master's house.

Maybe it's in the dark, there is retribution, the third master gave birth to six or seven sons in his life, but none of them survived, and later adopted a daughter, and because of the cruelty of the third grandmother, the goddaughter was also abused and ran away.

Later, after liberation, the landlord divided the land, and the things in the third master's house were robbed and divided, and in the end, only a copper basin and a pot were left in the house, and the rest of the things were basically all robbed.

There is no land, and there are no children, as they grow older, the scenery of the past is gone, and the three masters and their two sons have become two old desperate households.

His own brother starved to death in the third master's house, if the third master and the third grandmother could give him a bite to eat at that time, he would never have survived. Because after two months, the food will also come down.

has such a deep hatred, Guan Hongda has never said a word to the third master and his wife since he was a child.

Many years later, Guan Zizai, who came back from joining the army abroad, heard this incident and was furious, and wanted to pull the third grandmother out and shoot her, but it was Guan Hongda who interceded and let Guan Zizai let her go.

But although Guan Hongda pleaded with Guan Zizai, he still ignored the two of them.

This matter is known to the entire Guandi Temple Village, and Guan Yunshan naturally knows it clearly, so he has never stepped on the door of the third grandfather's house since he was a child.

Now Guan Hongda asked Guan Yunshan to lead the child to pay New Year's greetings to the third master, Guan Yunshan was naturally unwilling.

"They're all seventy or eighty, how many years can they live?"

Guan Hongda sighed, "There has to be an end-off, right? After so many years, it should be over." Can you really watch the two of them starve to death?"

"It's all a family!"