Li Ming's second grandfather loves wine, so Li Ming's grandfather loves gambling.

No, Li Ming heard Li Xingping say that the grandfather is now opening a gambling game next to the fire pit in the old tile house -- 'shaking the dice'.

Speaking of gambling, it is an enduring entertainment in Luojiao Village, in addition to eating and drinking, this is one of the villagers' favorite entertainment.

Of course, no one can gamble every day.

Generally, such a small gamble will occur during the New Year's holidays, or when the village is lively like now.

Of course, when relatives in a village like this play this, the gambling game is generally not large, at most a few thousand yuan to about 10,000 yuan.

Like Li Ming, he knew that his grandfather definitely came to open a gambling game with thousands of yuan.

Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and the poorer the place, the more they love to gamble.

Most people in your province love to gamble, especially in rural areas, as an ordinary village in your province, Luojiao Village is no exception.

Although everyone's living conditions are gradually becoming better than before, some things that have been handed down cannot be changed for a while.

In the words of Li's mother, that is, the good gambling in Luojiao Village has been inherited through guò blood.

Regardless of gender, young and old, most of the people in Luojiao Village love to gamble.

Li Ming's father also loved to gamble, and Li Ming heard his mother say how Father Li, who was still studying at the time, threw his number with his classmates and won the book tuition.

Throwing a number is generally a game played by children, but it is also a kind of gambling, but the amount they bet is not large, it is a few dimes and cents of coins, but in Li Ming's place, there are many people who habitually call coins numbers.

Father Li was laughed at by Mother Li because of this.

However, Dad Li didn't care every time. On the contrary, he was very proud, saying that he was so good that he could use this method to make up some tuition.

However, Li Ming can still feel the bitterness in this.

A child who wants to study, because he has no father, can only continue to go to school and study by not giving up all the means he can get money to get all the money he can get.

This can also understand why Father Li is always angry with Li Ming when his grades are not good.

Only when he knows that the opportunity to read is not easy, will he be angry and angry at Li Ming, who seems to not cherish it, and does not really work hard completely.

Sometimes Li Ming is very complaining.

Why is it so expensive to read?

It's not just the cost of studying, it's also the hospital. Hospitals and schools can be said to be the places in the world that people can't afford to spend money on without any bargaining and accommodation. It is also a place where people can spend money willingly.

Speaking of this, Li Ming remembered that the miscellaneous fees for primary and junior high schools that had been exempted later, as well as medical insurance, he always believed that this was the real benefit of the people of the country.

Li Ming after peeling the artichoke. I washed my hands and went straight to the steamer.

Put the pig brain marrow he wanted into the steamer, Li Ming clapped his hands, and waited for the steaming to be eaten.

For pig brain marrow, Li Ming has always believed that putting some salt and steaming directly is the best way to deal with it, and it is simple and rude, and it tastes good.

And Li Ming was not idle. Idle, he was also taking his cousin to marinate the prepared lean meat.

Kill pigs for the New Year, how can you not have some barbecue!

Every year, as long as this time, the best part of the lean meat on the pig after killing the pig will be deliberately left by the adults, after all. Children are most fond of eating fragrant barbecue at this time.

Li Ming has eaten that delicious barbecue almost every year since he was a child.

And now, even if Li Ming has become an adult, he is no longer a child. He still likes it.

When the marinated and cut meat slices emitted an attractive aroma on the charcoal fire, Li Ming's surroundings were already full of people.

Just eating barbecue slices, Li Ming has already eaten seven or eight percent full. With that bowl of pig brains, Li Ming didn't go to lunch.

At lunchtime, there were many people eating in the courtyard of Li Ming's hometown, all of whom were relatives and friends from the village who came to help.

In the evening, Li Ming and his two cousins went to the village to invite someone to eat pig-killing rice.

Not only Li Ming and them, but even Father Li also went.

They all acted separately, and they divided who went to those houses.

This efficiency is good, so in a short time, almost the entire village has been notified in place.

When it was time for dinner, the old tiled house of Li Ming's house was even more lively.

Killing pigs can be said to be a common custom in the rural areas of your province, not only in your province, but also in some places in several provinces adjacent to your province.

If anyone in the village kills a pig, the host will call the neighbors and relatives and friends to eat the pig-killing rice.

In many villages, almost all of them belong to one family, or all of them are relatives, so in some villages, whoever asks for pig slaughter will be invited to eat almost the whole village.

This is obviously the case in Luojiao Village, although not all of the people in the village are members of the same family, but all of them are relatives.

After so many years in the village, many descendants of the Wu family and the Li family have formed husband and wife families, and after careful calculation, the two families can almost be said to be inseparable from each other.

For example, a cousin of Li Ming married a peer surnamed Wu in the village.

However, now, slowly, there are fewer such cases.

Because now almost all the people in the village are relatives.

And now it's not the same as before, as long as you are not a direct blood relative, you can get married.

Therefore, the people in the village now generally marry to other places or marry back to other places.

There is also a tradition in the village that people with the same surname are not allowed to marry.

If the object brought back by anyone's baby is the same surname, no matter how good the other party is, they will not agree to their children and the other party.

Especially the old people in the village are more stubborn about this.

Li Ming didn't know what his parents thought about this.

Li Ming didn't ask his parents what they thought about this.

The day was lively and festive.

It is rare for the people in the village to have a lot of time in a year to get together like this.

The children are running around and playing, while the young people who are just starting to love get together and play cards and talk about whose girls are beautiful, the adults are drinking and chatting together, and the women are chatting about their children's obedience, their naughty children, their children's good grades, and so on......

There is also a group of old people gathered together, looking at the children who were playing, while showing doting eyes, they were also reminiscing about their former youth. (To be continued......)