The custom of the New Year in Xiangshui Town is to eat tangyuan on the morning of the first day of the new year, eat pig's trotter noodles on the second day of the new year, plus the mother uses pickles and minced meat and small fried tofu strips to fry the noodles, which can be regarded as a bowl of pig's trotter noodles, as for the third and fourth days of the new year, there is no special statement.

A thick layer of green pea tips was spread in the bowl, and Lu Tao picked it up with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth in one gulp.

"Can you not carry so many noodles this year?" Maybe it was because she ate too many pickles at school, Lu Lan always didn't like it very much, and frowned slightly.

"Everyone is sending noodles and sugar, why don't we send this?" Lu Dayou was still chewing in his mouth, and replied, looking a little hoarse.

"A family of three catties of noodles, two catties of sugar, all five catties, grandma, aunt, third aunt, aunt, and a few uncles, they carry so much every year, and they don't carry it back later. Lu Lan didn't understand this approach very much, so she calculated the account.

"I think my sister is right, we carry dozens of pounds every year, we go directly to my grandmother's house, they are very close to each other, forget it when they are done, every time they come to our house, it is a person carrying a few pounds of things, it is over, it is a lot easier. In my opinion, this year, I will have to give my family some money and save myself from carrying it back. Lu Tao understands and understands, but some noodles and white sugar are turned upside down between several restaurants, which is really a bit cumbersome, and he can't help but put forward his own ideas.

"Send money?" Lu Dayou glared at his son.

"The noodles are all made of your own wheat, and the sugar is also loose, and you use a saw blade to burn red and seal it, how much is it in total? If you really want to send money, how much should you send? Besides, you don't know about your mother's relatives, and if you give money, you will say that you didn't send anything, and you go empty-handed. ”

Lu Tao's idea is to let everyone relax, after all, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and everyone feels tired after climbing the hill and walking such a long distance, and the feet are swollen every year, which is really a headache.

"Tao'er, although you make money now, you can't spend it indiscriminately, and you have to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. By the way, do you want to take the time to take a look at the girl that Aunt Zhang said yesterday?"

Preaching always comes out inadvertently, and Lu Tao is a little helpless: "I may have to leave in the sixth year of junior high school, go to Qingshi to finish the house, and then I have to go to school, there are more things this year." “

"I asked you about that sister, and Aunt Zhang said it later yesterday, I heard that the family conditions are not bad, and she looks good, I think it's pretty good. ”

Knowing that my mother always doesn't believe in the words of her children, once outsiders say something, the memory is quite good, and from time to time I have to take it out and say, Lu Tao hurriedly said: "It's all said and talked about, Mom, don't worry about it." ”

"After talking, I just went to take a look, and there was no loss, in case I saw it, what kind of pure thing you said, seeing that you have been back for so long, I haven't seen you call or anything, I don't think it's very reliable. ”

babbled again, in a word, let Lu Tao go on a blind date.

"Which sister?" Lu Tao, who was a little irritable, couldn't help but ask casually, looking at this posture, if he didn't give a clear answer, maybe his mother would be cranky again.

"I heard that his surname is Luo, and he lives in our Xiangshui Town, in the house next to the supply and marketing cooperative. ”

Yesterday afternoon, Lu Tao took his sister to the field to pick pea tips, and I don't know what Aunt Zhang talked about with her mother later.

"I have to go to Qingshi sooner. Lu Tao found a reason for himself.

"Anyway, won't you be in a hurry in two days? When you come back from your grandmother's house, you will go to the town and meet you by the way, whether it works out or not, you have to meet you." Seeing that Lu Tao was a little relieved, his mother couldn't help but smile.

"We'll talk about that then. Lu Tao thought about it for a while, there is really no problem with meeting, there were a lot of blind dates in his previous life, most of them met and found a place to chat awkwardly, and then spent a meal money, and after eating, they went back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.

Of course, the blind date can't be known to Yan Chun no matter what, the time to come back is not long, and everyone is going to visit each other with relatives during the Chinese New Year, or class reunions or the like, so there are not many calls with Yan Chun, but it doesn't mean that there is a problem with the relationship between the two. On the contrary, although Yan Chun made few phone calls, Lu Tao could hear from her tone every time she called.

"It's pretty much the same, your uncle didn't come back this year, and the relatives over there should go, if the relationship is relatively estranged, just bring a gift to the past, and there is no need to eat. ”

"Yes. "Every family eats the same meal, when it comes to the New Year, that's it, especially Lu Tao has been a human being in two lives, if he is younger, he feels good, but after he is psychologically mature, he always feels not particularly comfortable and habitual.

"Uncle and aunt, aren't they coming back this year?" Lu Lan asked.

"I heard that I didn't buy a ticket, and the fare for two people to come back is quite expensive, and I heard that they have to catch up with the goods in the factory recently, and they work a lot of overtime, so I guess I took the opportunity to make more money." ”

In labor-intensive manufacturing enterprises, overtime is the norm for workers, but fortunately, the implementation of labor laws in coastal areas is quite good, although the basic salary is lower, but the overtime pay is okay, and most people can only earn money by relying on overtime wages.

"How can I do it when I am young and don't earn a little money, I work without any education, and I go back to my hometown when I am old, I don't see your grandmother and grandfather are so old and still plant so much land every year. "The thoughts of the men in charge are different, and they think more about the whole family and the way out in the future, so Lu Dayou said this.

"Speaking of which, they have been outside for so many years, and they haven't seen much money except for the house being repaired. In June, when the eldest sister asked him to borrow money, she still said that she owed foreign debts. ”

The family is also very interested in talking about other people's affairs, in previous years, Lu Tao's family has always been the object of cynicism, but now it is different from the past, although the money Lu Tao sent back a year is useless, but the amount is known, how to say that it is more than what they are left over from working outside.

"What is my aunt's family borrowing money for?"

"What else can you do? No, it's still your cousin, who said one moment that he was going to the city to do a snack business, but he didn't know where to spend the money he gave from his family, and then he said that he was going to buy a house in the city, and he didn't see a shadow of the house until now. ”

"If they have money, let them toss. Thinking of his cousin, Lu Tao smiled and replied.

For the cousin who was a few months younger than himself, Lu Tao also knew more clearly, at least from the experience of his previous life, he was definitely not a down-to-earth person.

I still remember in my previous life, Lu Tao had prepared a down payment, thinking that his cousin had been a real estate agent in the city for a while, so he asked him to help him, after all, he was a relative, and he was familiar with the way, so he wouldn't pit himself.

The result is naturally conceivable, that cousin actually joined forces with outsiders to deceive himself, saying how the loan for the house did not work, and he needed to pay more than 10,000 yuan to the bank for various fees.

"It's a fart money, it's not like messing around outside all day. Lu Dayou can't see the juniors who don't do their jobs all day long, whether it's his daughter or son, whether it's his own or someone else's, with an expression of hatred that doesn't make steel.

"Anyway, the relationship between them has always been very good, let's just live with us. ”

"That is, every year when I go to my aunt's house, I eat the worst, either cold leftovers or very little meat, I still remember that last year, a table of people just filled up, just a pot of bones, and the people at our table are laughing at it. ”

Lu Lan had some opinions about the aunt in the mouths of several people, and after saying a word, it seemed that compared to the noodles in her bowl, the meal served by the aunt's family was worse, and she couldn't help but take a bite to express her dissatisfaction in her heart.

After the Chinese New Year, the banquet purchased by each family for entertaining guests is also a long-term conversation in everyone's mouth.