Chapter Seventy-Three: Making Dumplings and Setting Off Fireworks
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After eating, the parents took the panel to the house, basins, meat, chopped celery, seasonings, ready to make dumplings, while watching the Spring Festival Gala while making dumplings, is the northeast people's thirty night vigil repertoire, families are like this, generally Chinese New Year's Eve is wrapped with celery filling, take the meaning of hard work and prosperity.
Dad took out the hand-cranked meat reamer, fixed it and shook it while filling the meat, the hinged meat received directly into the basin, put in the chopped celery, add seasoning, beat in two eggs, stirred well with chopsticks, the dumpling filling was ready, put aside and start to mix the noodles, the noodles should be put in the basin and cover the lid to wake up for a while, it tastes big and delicious.
The TV is lively and lively, all about the New Year's greetings in various places, Zhang Xingming sighed, no matter what time it is, the TV is full of peace and joy.
The face woke up, the family surrounded the panel, the father rolled the skin, Zhang Xingming and his mother packed, and the brother also packed, but he always deliberately wrapped up all kinds of aliens, and he admired it there, and the younger brother was purely troublemaker, and after a while, the whole body was noodles, and the face was one by one, and he was having fun.
Wrapping it up, my mother said to my father: "My mother sent a letter, saying that my brother sold their house and took her and her father to the sidelines, and I don't know how, I am too busy this year, and I haven't worked hard to take a look, or you will go to see it in the New Year?"
Dad said: "That's not good, your brother is doing well, building a big house and buying a color TV, he must have picked up your mother to enjoy the blessings, the old man and the old lady are not in that ravine, and there is no one to take care of them when they are older, your brother is sorry for your mother." ”
My mother shook her head and said, "Just your aunt's fucking play, my mother can enjoy happiness when she goes?"
Uncle's daughter-in-law is also surnamed Zhang, and she is a relative of my father's side who comes out of Wufu, and my father has to be called aunt in terms of generation, so my mother always makes fun of my father, because from my uncle's side, my father also has to call my mother aunt.
Zhang Xingming has been too busy for most of the year, and there are many things, so he didn't think about his grandmother's move, and then he remembered that he was busy forgetting his grandmother, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed with himself, and reached out to hit his head and left a white mark.
My mother looked over and asked, "What's wrong Erbao?
Zhang Xingming said with annoyance: "I was busy working all the way and forgot about my grandmother, am I not filial." ”
The old mother wiped her hands with a towel, reached out to wipe the face on Zhang Xingming's head, and said, "How can it, my second treasure is the most filial, he goes to school and earns money, he forgets how busy he is, it's okay." ”
Dad looked up while rolling the dough and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Zhang Xingming pinched the dough on the panel with his hand, and said: "My grandmother must have been sinned by my uncle, she can't eat or drink, my aunt has to scold the street all day long, just my sister is okay, but it doesn't work if you say it, Mom, I tell you, hurry up and take my grandma to our house, or my grandma will have to let my aunt toss to death." ”
My mother stopped what she was doing and thought about it: "It's not good, just like my sister-in-law, my mother and my father will definitely not be able to make any good starts, and my brother is always on a business trip." ”
Zhang Xingming sighed, nodded, and said: "This must be the case, it turns out that when they were in the sheepfold (place name), my grandmother didn't fall into anything, and the big house didn't say to pick up my grandma over, and went to make a scene, and now they live together, just my aunt's character, my grandma must be offended, and besides, grandpa is not biological, and there is no emotion if he doesn't live together, so it's okay to get together?
My mother sighed, was stunned for a long time, and said, "Take it, I'll pick up my parents in a few days, it's not easy for my brother to disagree." ”
In the rural areas of Northeast China, filial piety to the elderly is very important, whose son does not support his mother, which mother supports the elderly in her daughter's house, this is a major event, and the three relatives and neighbors must be counted.
In the last life, after my uncle took my grandmother over, my grandmother fell ill within a few days, so I wrote to my mother to spend money on treatment, and repeated it several times, but my mother simply didn't let my grandma go back, and my aunt drove my grandfather out, and my grandfather lived in Zhang Xingming's house for 16 years.
Uncle was scolded by someone pointing at his back, and he himself felt that he couldn't raise his head, he was still the leader of the town, and finally asked the eldest sister to coax his grandmother back.
As a result, my grandmother was critically ill in less than half a year after I went back, and my mother got a trolley to go to the ridge to pick up my grandmother, and she stayed in the hospital for two months, and then my uncle came again, crying and regretting, and my grandmother felt sorry for her son, so she went back with her.
As a result, it didn't work again after two months, and when my mother arrived, my grandmother was already dying, and she left after a few words, and my aunt waited until the old lady was completely dead before writing to my mother.
My mother later said that when she went, she saw that her grandmother's pants and quilts were urinated and no one changed them, and it was cold and cold in winter, and she was afraid that her aunt would wet the bed and her aunt would not give her water to drink, and she would not give her food, and she said that she was thirsty when she was dying, and after eating three big oranges, her mother cried, saying that she had to be thirsty, so she had a big quarrel with her aunt and scolded her uncle, and the two families never interacted with each other.
Zhang Xingming thought for a while and said, "Mom, you think about it, now in the New Year, if you go to pick up my grandma, you and my uncle will immediately turn their faces and make trouble, don't regret it." ”
The old mother thought about it, gritted her teeth, and said: "Sooner or later, I will pick it up, and I will say that the days are good and I will take the old couple to live for a while and enjoy the happiness, if he does not agree with me scolding him to death, then I would like to wait for your aunt to be like that."
When I was a child, your uncle went out to work at the age of twelve or thirteen to earn money and take it home, I always thought he had to be very filial, but I didn't expect to marry a daughter-in-law and become like this, forget it, I can't let your grandmother suffer the sin of that old lady, go and pick it up, let's go tomorrow. ”
Zhang Xingming sighed and said, "Mom, in fact, there is a way, I will give my uncle some money and give him a few million, on the condition that I treat my grandmother well, do you think it's okay?"
My mother shook her head and said, "No, now his family is not poor, they are leading cadres, and they are all tens of thousands of dollars to take home, how many of them can build such a big house? How many of them can buy big color TVs? Forget it, that's the kind of person, and if you have more money, it will be even more uncomfortable to see your grandmother."
Besides, give the old lady money, I don't do it yet, she wants to go (dreaming).
I'll pick it up tomorrow, it's set. He raised his foot and kicked his father: "Do you want to pick it up?"
Dad immediately raised his hand in surrender, showing a smiling face: "Take it, I'll pick it up tomorrow, he won't raise us, and he promises to raise the old lady for nothing." ”
Mom stretched out her hand to wipe my father's face and said, "Why are you chubby, you treat my mother as a pig." The brother laughed, the father bowed his head and did not squeak, and recognized the bear, anyway, everything was cleaned up by the mother.
My mother began to sum up: "Why do you take it? Take the train? It's cold this day, you have to take a lot of things, it's too offended, let Zhao San get a car, get a car to pick it up, oh no, there are two people in the car, so you can't freeze to death in the car body, what's the matter?"