I miss my relatives every festive season.

Before the Spring Festival, it is estimated that the whole family, except for Qin Yongmei, is missing their friends in the south, as well as relatives and friends in the south.

The Bai family is a very large clan in the south.

Every year during the Spring Festival to worship the ancestors, the eldest sons and grandchildren of each house have to come to thousands of people.

The banquet after the ancestor worship also has 50 tables.

In order to cope with the expenses of worshipping ancestors, the ancestors of the Bai family even left a few acres of land to supplement the expenses with the harvest of the fields.

Bai Ce is the eldest son in the family, and the eldest son and eldest grandson of the third house among the five major families.

Right now, Bai Ce has arrived in the north, and the ancestral worship of his hometown has to be handed over to Bai Ce's second brother Bai Zhengming.

Bai Ce also has three older sisters on it.

According to the calling habits of the hometown, these three aunts, Bai Ke and their brothers should be called eldest father, second father, and third father.

However, the white guests followed their mother Qin Yongmei.

Only call the eldest aunt, the second aunt, and the third aunt.

Otherwise, if you call the eldest father, the second father, and the third father, Bai Ke really doesn't know what to call his uncles.

Right now, in his hometown, there are only three aunts left in Baike.

In addition to the third aunt, there are also the fourth aunt and the seventh aunt.

In her early years, the aunt joined Chiang Ching-kuo's Youth Army and followed the monarch to Treasure Island.

Because of the fear of being impacted, Bai Ce kept this secret until his death.

Many years later, until the aunt came back to look for relatives, the white guests did not know about this past.

The second aunt was also a soldier, participated in the People's Liberation Army, and later became a military doctor, and went to Guizhou after changing jobs.

The reason why Qin Yongmei was able to become a police officer as a worker in a high-level culture and garment factory.

In addition to what County Magistrate Liu said that she was a tiger since she was a child, it is also related to the identity of these relatives.

For example, Qin Yongmei's third brother is a railway policeman.

Bai Ce is a demobilized soldier again.

Moreover, Bai Ce's third brother-in-law is the local public security chief in his hometown.

Of course, the white guest and his brothers are not as homesick as their father.

They miss their friends more.

The southerners have a strong clan concept, and they have a lot of cousins and cousins, and they are usually very warm together.

Bai Zong, Bai Bin, and Bai Ning have been studying in the south for a few years, and there are a lot of good classmates and friends.

Less than half a year after arriving in a strange city, it is not easy to re-establish friendship.

In addition to Bai Zong, who is good at socializing, Bai Bin and Bai Ning are both a little introverted, and it will take time to integrate into the new environment.

Especially Bai Bin, his ability to adapt to the environment is relatively poor, and even after he reaches the age of several decades, he still has a relatively strong southern accent.

Bai Bin's wife is called Wang Hui, and she has become another big star in Bai Bin's mouth, and has become a stalk that everyone ridicules.

Of course, everyone also misses the mountains and rivers of the south.

After all, the mountains and rivers in the south are very different from those in the north.

The south is full of green mountains and rivers all year round.

For most of the year, the vegetation in the north withered and was depressed.

However, as the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, everyone is gradually infected by the festive atmosphere.

I also gradually feel that the Spring Festival in the north is actually more lively than in the south, and the content is rich.

Take food, for example.

In the south, there are a dozen glutinous rice balls and a bag of rice balls.

There are more in the north.

Braised pig's head, stewed goose, etc., are just small preludes.

It really started with pasta and oil.

Although Qin Yongmei can't cook, she is very good at doing these things.

First, steamed pasta.

The steamed buns are shaped into various shapes, some like fish, and some like longevity peaches.

Locals call this steamed bun a horse, which is the pronunciation of the "rook" in chess.

In addition to this strange-shaped steamed bun, there are also bean buns and rice cakes.

At this time, there is no ready-made bean paste, so the bean wrapping filling is freshly made with red beans.

When the red beans are cooked and boiled, they are mixed with white sugar and one with force.

Therefore, the beans will not all be crushed, and they will be eaten one by one.

Maybe it's because my mother doesn't make it delicious, and these pasta dishes are not particularly popular with white customers.

What he prefers is to go oily.

The so-called oil is all kinds of frying.

Fried twist, fried fish, croquettes.

Bai Ke can't eat enough of these things fried by his mother in his two lives.

Add eggs and a little sugar to the twist.

It is especially delicious when it is freshly fried, soft and sweet.

There are also fried oysters, fried yellow croaker, and fried boss fish.

Bai Ke's favorite food is his mother's fried meatballs.

There are shredded radish balls and sweet potato balls.

Especially sweet potato balls, they are delicious when they are hot, and they have a different taste when they are cold.

In the last life, Bai Ke's relationship with his mother deteriorated very early.

I haven't eaten anything fried by my mother in more than 30 years.

In this life, he finally came back, and he could relive that full of happiness.

Eating steaming twist flowers and balls, Bai Ke couldn't help but shed tears.

Qin Yongmei reprimanded on the side: "You are delicious, you are not afraid of burning to death, can't you eat it when it is cold?"

"It's really hot. "The white guest can't help but be embarrassed.

Bai Zong and Bai Ning were on the side, helping Qin Yongmei while laughing eating.

When the fried and steamed are almost busy, it's time for Bai Ce to show his skills.

Bai Ce carried the table and chairs and began to write couplets in the courtyard.

Neighbors themselves took the cut red paper and lined up to ask for couplets.

More than ten years ago, there were more people who could write calligraphy and couplets.

But in the past decade or so, because of the turmoil, many literate people have been impacted, hidden, and disappeared.

Even the third generation was sent to the countryside.

How can anyone write calligraphy and couplets?

It's a pity that in the last life, the four brothers of the Bai family failed to inherit their father's skills.

Bai Ke and Bai Bin can barely write a few strokes, but they have nothing to do with calligraphy, and they are far from the feeling of their father's pen.

In this life, Bai Ke also feels that he has no drama, he can write anyone, but he has to be talented to write well.

And the white customer has nothing in this regard.

Bai Ke was looking at the neighbors coming and going, and Zhuoma suddenly jumped in front of him, holding a red paper: "I want to go through the back door!"

Bai Ke deliberately straightened his face: "No." ”

"Bad old right, bad old right!" Dolma chased after Bai Ke.

Bai Ke hid behind his father.

"Dad, Zhuoma writes very well. ”

"Okay, let's practice calligraphy in a while. ”

After the neighbors who asked for couplets gradually dispersed, Bai Ce began to teach Zhuoma to write calligraphy.

Under Bai Ce's guidance, Zhuoma wrote a few strokes seriously, and Bai Ce praised again and again: "Not bad, not bad, much better than their brothers." ”

Before the Chinese New Year, Qin Yongmei took the big guy to steam the noodles and remove the oil, but after the Chinese New Year really began, she didn't have time to accompany everyone.

On the second and fourth days of junior high school, she had to be on duty in the unit.

Because during the Chinese New Year, half-grown children and teenagers have a hard time.

The average family can only buy 100 firecrackers, and 200 can make do with it.

Rich people only play 500 rings, 1000 rings.

But children at this time are not playing with firecrackers.

Instead, they were taken apart and played one by one.

You throw it at me, I throw it at you.

The firecrackers that children of their age are generally the size of chopsticks.

The firecrackers that half-grown children like Bai Zong and them play with are the thickness of their fingers.

Throwing it on bare skin, or on the face, will definitely hurt people.

A little more fierce children play directly with the thickness of the water pipe.

Attacking and defending each other, it's like a war.

Bai Ke has never understood why the child at this time is so cruel.

Perhaps it was affected by a decade of turmoil.

But playing with firecrackers is not the most ferocious.

The most ferocious thing is that children of this era play with guns regardless of size.