Hu Wei went back so late, and the New Year's goods had already been purchased by Hu Zhiwen, so he bought the gifts for everyone in advance, and gave them to them on the day he returned, including Reba and her family.

Di's father and Di's mother also live in the guest room of Hu Zhiwen's house, Hu Wei is alone, Reba wants to sleep with Hu Yingying, the beautiful name is sisterhood and deepens the feelings, but Reba is really thin-skinned, even if they all know, she is embarrassed to sleep in a room openly.

When Hu Wei came back, Di's father and Di's mother had already come, and the next day the family was divided into three groups, Di's father and Hu Zhiwen sat in the living room to talk about some military news or historical events of mutual interest, Di's mother and Wang Xia chatted in the courtyard about some gossip or the marriage of Hu Wei and Reba, and the other three young people with "Xiangling" either went out to wave or played games together in the room.

And in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it was still divided into three groups, but it became one group of men, one group of women, and a lonely "Xiangling" running around at home.

Reba and Hu Yingying are doing some relatively simple work, wiping the windows and mopping the floor, because Wang Xia considers that Father Di and Father Di are not used to eating their own dishes, and they will not cook their dishes, and the other party is a guest, even if the children of the two parties are a couple, it is not good for her to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

So the two of them are ready to call the hotel to order food according to their own preferences, discuss the dishes to be ordered together, celebrate the festival, it is rare to relax, you can be lazy and lazy, although Wang Xia used to do it alone, but there were only four people before, and there was no need to do too much.

Hu Zhiwen prepared red paper, brushes, paperweights and other tools for writing Spring Festival couplets on the table in the study, Hu Wei stood in front of the table and pressed the red paper with a paperweight, and Di's father watched quietly beside him, although he did not know this custom very well, but he could still understand it by looking at it.

Hu Zhiwen thought for a while and made a few marks on the red paper with his fingernails and started writing, Hu Wei pulled the red paper out a little after he finished writing a word, holding the Spring Festival couplets with his hand, not letting it hang down, the two of them cooperated very tacitly, it is obvious that this is already their family's habit, and it is written like this every year.

Hu Wei looked at the words on the Spring Festival couplets and read: "Even two years old in one night, five more years are divided into two years and every year, well, it is much better than what I wrote in previous years." ”

Hu Zhiwen replied angrily: "You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, there are only a few New Year couplets, and they will always be repeated when you write them, otherwise you will write a new one on the spot?"

Of course, Hu Wei can't write a new one, and he vigorously praises Hu Zhiwen's calligraphy is better to change the topic, Di's father rarely echoes Hu Wei's point of view, and also admires Hu Zhiwen's calligraphy, after all, he is a key university Chinese teacher, and his calligraphy is also quite good.

Hu Wei later wrote a couplet especially ugly, writing and playing, "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and everything is prosperous", which was scolded twice by Hu Zhiwen with a smile, and asked him to practice more when he was fine, but his writing was not as good as before, and Hu Wei was powerless to refute it, and echoed in a low voice.

Of course, for ordinary people, Hu Wei's writing is still very good, Reba came to Hu Wei after wiping the window clean, to see what he was doing, and then she saw Hu Wei's writing, she recognized it at a glance, and felt that Hu Wei's writing was quite good, although the couplet written by Hu Wei was not pasted, Reba still put it away.

Originally, Reba wanted to discuss the dishes to be ordered with Dimu Wang Xia, but she reported too much, and Dimu ruthlessly refused to add and drove away, so she had to play with Hu Wei bitterly.

"Five Watches and Two Years ......"

Hu Wei interrupted her and said, "The couplet is to be read from right to left, and the upper couplet on the right. ”

Reba responded perfunctorily and continued to read: "One night is divided into two years and the year is as good as expected, and the fifth watch is two years, eh, it's so strange to read." ”

Hu Wei next to him laughed, Hu Zhiwen smiled softly, and Di's father turned his head to look at the lantern hanging in the corridor as if he didn't hear his daughter.

Although Reba didn't know what was wrong with him, he knew that Hu Wei must be laughing at himself, so he hurriedly pinched Hu Wei to prevent him from laughing, "What are you laughing at?

Hu Wei still couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's really funny to see you read the couplets seriously, but you don't know the words." ”

Following Reba, Hu Yingying came over soon after mopping the ground, looked at them curiously and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Reba said coquettishly: "Your brother is sick, inexplicable, no matter about him, you look at the couplets he wrote, scribble." ”

The two girls began to laugh wildly at the couplet that seemed to be neat but did not make sense, Hu Wei stopped laughing and said helplessly: "Eh, Fat Di, obviously you just said that I wrote it very beautifully, didn't you just read the participations as Xi smiled, is it necessary to pull Ying Ying to laugh at me?"

Reba finally knew which word he had read wrong, and thought it was other traditional Chinese characters that he had mispronounced, but he didn't see it clearly, of course, it was impossible to admit his mistake, and Tsundere said: "It's not understandable, so I didn't retaliate against you, and I read it wrong, and it's not that I'm illiterate, what's so funny." ”

Hu Wei was powerless to refute, and echoed: "Well, it's not funny at all, it's not the first time anyway, what Capricorn (xie) and Zhen Mi (bi) aren't you often talking about." ”

Hu Wei deliberately mispronounced Capricorn (jie) and Zhen Mi (fu) mocked Reba, and immediately slipped away after speaking, Reba chased after him to teach him, the second old man helplessly watched the two young people fight, always felt that they didn't grow up, Hu Yingying also helped Reba catch Hu Wei together.

In the afternoon, Hu Wei followed Hu Zhiwen to the Hu ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, the ancestor worship ceremony is generally held in the ancestral hall of the clan on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, the same surname clan wearing costumes participated, the ceremony was more grand, there were many people coming, Hu Wei basically did not know much, only remembered a few grandfathers and grandfathers of the older generations.

The aura of a star here is useless, Hu Zhiwen took him to greet the other elders, although Hu Wei didn't know them, but they still remembered Hu Wei, the little guy, not because Hu Wei was famous, but when they first met, adults' memories were always a little better than those of children.

Most of them sighed that Hu Wei had grown up, after all, Hu Wei did not come every year, this kind of ancestor worship is mostly good for each family to send one person, of course, there is no problem to come a few more, in addition to remembering the ancestors, the ancestors here are a long time ago, and Hu Wei has not seen them.

The same clan naturally has to support each other, although the blood relationship is already very thin, but it is much better than strangers, the old patriarch tells about the problems solved within the clan this year and the difficulties that still exist, the achievements of the clansmen, etc., leading Hu Wei and dozens of them to sacrifice, this is not superstition, it is a kind of inheritance.

After the sacrifice, everyone donates to the clan, the principle of voluntariness, there is no return, but there will be a record, the funds will be used to repair the ancestral hall or fund some people in difficulty in the clan, orphans and widows, widows and old people, etc., there will also be records, everyone also believes that no one will embezzle these funds, Hu Wei and Hu Zhiwen naturally donated a lot.