【043】Grave on Chinese New Year's Eve

Ye Zi and Dunzi happily ran into the house with their stuffed dolls and toy guns, respectively. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info especially Dunzi, the first time to have such a good toy to play, it was even happier than eating meat, I saw him shouting as he ran: "Don't move, raise your hands." Both hands kept pulling the trigger, and the toy gun flashed suddenly.

Wan Xinghua ran out of the house when she heard the wind, and saw that the two children were just holding a toy in their hands, and the bright smile on their faces disappeared immediately, followed by a cold and terrifying fierce look.

"Yezi, your aunt bought you a little bit of this, and you didn't ask her for anything else?"

I was happily holding the leaves of the doll, but when I saw my mother, who was holding her waist with one hand and a wicker in the other, her eyes were cold, her face was gloomy, and she was stunned there, and looked at her pitifully: "My aunt also bought something delicious for us to eat." ”

Wan Xinghua is also a money obsesser, she doesn't want to think about her own pair of children, the eldest is only seven years old, the younger is only five years old, how can they have so much scheming to calculate the things of outsiders, they are already very content when they see that they have fun and food.

"You damn girl, tell you to ask your aunt for more things, but you are holding such a useless rag doll, this useless thing can be eaten as food?" said as he took the wicker and was about to whip the leaves. Ye Zi cried in fright.

Liu Ruyan came over with two sets of children's clothes, heard Wan Xinghua's cursing and Ye Zi's crying, smiled bitterly, hurriedly ran over, snatched the wicker in Wan Xinghua's hand, and persuaded: "Sister-in-law, don't beat the children during the New Year, dissipate your anger, this is the clothes for the children." ”

When Wan Xinghua saw the clothes, she turned her anger into joy, hurriedly took the clothes handed over by Liu Ruyan, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Yo, how embarrassing it is, I want you to spend money to buy clothes for the child, come brother and sister, you can sit." After speaking, he turned around and put his clothes in the house, moved a bench from the back room, and touched the dust on it with his arm: "Brother and sister, sit here." ”

"Don't sit down, my friend is still at home, wait until I go over to eat, I don't need to call." After Liu Ruyan finished speaking, she turned around and shouted at Ye Zi and Dunzi: "Ye Zi, Dunzi, go to grandma's house with your aunt." ”

Ye Zi and Dunzi immediately held one of Liu Ruyan's hands, regardless of their mother's face, and followed Liu Ruyan to the grandparents' house in the old house, where there are many New Year's goods bought by aunts, and the little ones can eat as much as they want, without the approval of adults.

In the old house, Lin Gang and Li Yuanzheng were fiddling with the TV.

Mother Lin saw that Liu Ruyan had spent so much money again, and she was distressed to death, of course, she was also happy from the bottom of her heart, proving that this daughter-in-law would not dislike her son. She didn't know that Liu Ruyan had a family fortune, and thought that she was just like her son, just earning a meager salary. When he saw that she had returned, he persuaded: "Cub, what are you doing with so much money, how hard it is for you to make money! Look, we have bought so many things for the New Year, and so many clothes, and we have all dressed there." ”

Liu Ruyan hugged Mother Lin: "Mom, I'm happy to buy clothes for you, I feel comfortable when I buy it, I don't just buy a color TV for you, we also have to watch the Spring Festival Gala." ”

"If you have money or not, go home for the New Year". For the peasants who go out to work with the tide of migrant workers, the barren land of their rural hometown is their homeland that they are deeply attached to, and no matter what their situation is outside, they will rush home during the Chinese New Year. The elderly at home, usually lonely guarding this slightly empty home, hope that during the Chinese New Year, they can see their children thousands of miles away, so as to alleviate a little of the worrying concern; So by the Chinese New Year's Eve, the usually quiet mountain village was also very lively.

After lunch, the sound of firecrackers rang out one after another on the hills around the village.

Liu Ruyan went to the countryside for the first time for the New Year, she was curious about everything, and heard the faint and intermittent sound of firecrackers outside, and the sound of firecrackers was not in the village, it seemed to be on the nearby mountains, it felt a little strange, of course, she was smart, and naturally guessed that it should be a custom in the countryside. Out of professional instinct, she was curious to know what the custom was.

"This is a tradition in our area, every year on the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every family goes to the ancestral grave mountain, goes to the grave, mainly burns incense, pays tribute, beats firecrackers, and then goes home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. When Liu Ruyan asked Father Lin, Father Lin explained.

"Then we are going too?" asked Liu Ruyan with interest.

"Of course, you see Daddy's everything is ready, and he's ready to go. Lin Gang pointed to his father's hand.

Only then did Liu Ruyan realize that Father Lin was carrying a bamboo basket with some incense candles, firecrackers and several small porcelain bowls containing three glutinous rice cakes, a chicken head, a small piece of pork, and a small fish.

Looking at the offerings on the inside of the bamboo basket, Liu Ruyan asked curiously: "Is this event only for the elderly, can we young people participate?"

Father Lin heard what Liu Ruyan meant, and guessed that Gangzi's daughter-in-law might want to follow her to worship her ancestors.

"As long as the Lin family, regardless of men, women and children, can go up the mountain to worship their ancestors, but the ancestral tomb is full of thorns, it is not easy to walk, you have not walked the road on the mountain, you can't stand such suffering, it is better to rest at home. ”

"Oh. Liu Ruyan replied wistfully, he was not good at competing to worship his ancestors in front of his future father-in-law, but he stared at Lin Gang, hoping that he would speak out, and accompany him to the ancestral tomb mountain to participate in the ancestor worship activities.

"Dad, I haven't been to the grave of my ancestors for more than ten years, or I'll go. Lin Gang understood, and stretched out his hand to take the bamboo basket in his father's hand.

"I'll go with you, it's been more than ten years, you still remember where those ancestral graves are, you can go, I can point out some ancestral graves for you to remember, so that you don't even know where your ancestral graves are. After Father Lin nodded in response, he turned to Liu Ruyan and said, "Girl, then you have to change your shoes and clothes." ”

"Dad, I brought sneakers, I'm going to change them right away. Liu Ruyan excitedly pulled Lin Gang and went into the house to change clothes.

Father Lin took Lin Gang and Liu Ruyan to incense the ancestral tomb in a good mood, and the old man still recited words, wanting each ancestor to tell him that his descendants Lin Gang is now bringing his daughter-in-law to incense the ancestors, please bless the two of them with peace and security, happiness and health.

When he came to Lin Gang's grandfather's grave, Lin's father still laid down the three lives of tribute, prayed in front of his father, and asked his father to bless his grandchildren and daughters-in-law with peace and security outside, and then asked Lin Gang and Liu Ruyan to incense, and he took firecrackers to light them.

With a "pop", one of the small porcelain bowls placed in front of the grave was shattered by firecrackers flying over.

Father Lin's heart tightened, and a bad omen came out of his mind, could it be that there is any disaster in our family?

Lin Gang and Liu Ruyan are young people, and they would not have thought that a broken bowl would have any hints or omens, and Lin Gang also joked: "Grandpa wants to eat a few more bites to contribute." ”

That kind of bad omen only stayed in Yang's father's mind for a few minutes, and after hearing his son's words, he also thought that he was thinking too much, and his son finally came back for the New Year, and he also brought himself such a good daughter-in-law, how could this little accident spoil this harmonious atmosphere.