At this time, in the city of Beijing, the land-sitting households were generally a big family, and the meaning of the land-sitting households was the native Beijingers, not those who moved in with the government departments and the army with the liberation of the country. These big families of landed households basically still retain the four olds that have not been destroyed, and the four olds are: old ideas, old habits, old customs, and old culture. The specific expression of Xiàn in Hong Tao and his grandfather is the patriarchal system and machismo!

Hong Tao's grandfather was a little old man, not tall, but very strong. He works in the electron tube factory over there in Dashanzi, he is an ordinary fitter, and his education is not high, at most he can read newspapers or something. First of all, he got up at 4 o'clock in the morning, first went to Ditan Park to play Tai Chi, and then found a big tree to hit his whole body, and then walked all the way to the east, through the Dongzhi Gate and went straight to the area of Jiuxianqiao Dashanzi.

How far is this distance? It is equivalent to walking from Ditan Park to Wangjing Community, about 9 kilometers each way, halfway through the breakfast shop in Dongzhimen to have a meal of steamed buns and fried liver, lunch in the lunch box, and then walk all the way back after work in the evening, by the way to buy some snacks for the children at home. This child refers to Hong Tao and Hong Tao's little uncle, as for the aunt who is only 12 years older than Hong Tao, in the eyes of his grandfather, he can't be regarded as a child at all, let alone buy snacks, the boys in the family are children, and the girls are all raised by others.

If you just don't buy snacks, it's okay, but this is only a very small detail, in Hong Tao's grandmother's house, the time when the grandfather comes back from work, is the time to open dinner, the old man almost arrives home at the same time every day, so after he enters the house, drink two sips of hot tea, the wine and food must be on the table, not a minute late, if it is late, grandma will have to complain, the aunt who is responsible for helping grandma cook will have to be scolded, catch up with Hong Tao's mother to come back and the three women will all be counted, if Hong Tao's aunt and aunt-in-law also come back, then the four women will be scolded together！

But this kind of number falls, complaining, scolding, only limited to the women in the family, like Hong Tao's father, aunt, uncle, brother-in-law, including Hong Tao himself, will not be scolded, the old man from the bottom of his heart feels that the men in the family are all working to earn money, women are washing, cooking, and watching the children, if he does not go to work well, and the salary is not returned, it is his problem, except for this, a qiē problem is a woman's problem, and it must be educated!

The old man doesn't smoke, but he must drink 2 cups of liquor and a small porcelain cup at every meal, which is called a Baqian cup in Beijing, and a cup of less than one or two wines. The order of eating at grandma's house is like this, first serve the wine, usually mix a shredded radish, cabbage heart and the like, catch up with the old man's happiness, he may bring back a pair of pig's head meat or haggis from the way from work, wrapped in yellow oil paper, put it in his pocket, take it out when eating, put it on the table, and the aroma can fill a yard.

When the wine is almost drunk, the main course and hot dish are served, which are nothing more than cabbage stewed potatoes, radish stewed potatoes, fried cucumbers, stewed lentils, etc., and at most a small plate of eggs. At that time, most families in Beijing were like this, in winter, it was cabbage, radish, and potatoes, and in summer, the cabbage was removed and replaced with cucumbers and lentils, all year round, and dumplings or buns were made several times a month, or they made fried noodles or something, and put some minced meat in them.

There must be an order in which the food is served, and the people who eat must also line up in order. The only people who can eat at the same table with grandpa are the men in the family. Uncle is in the first place, because according to the old etiquette in Beijing, the uncle is considered a guest and has to be respected, generally only Hong Tao's father, his eldest aunt's family lives far away, and he will not come during the New Year's holidays; the little boy is in second place, that is, Hong Tao and his little uncle; the remaining adult boys are at the bottom, but if there is one in it who can have a sip with the old man, the position can be moved forward. It's a pity that the whole family, including Hong Tao and his father, doesn't drink except for the old man.

When the men finished eating, they usually waited for their grandfather to finish eating, wiped their mouths and left the table, so that the women of the family could go to the table to eat, and at this time, the good dishes and a little bit of meat on the table were eaten up by Hong Tao and his little uncle. Hong Tao didn't think there was anything wrong with this habit when he was a child, and he didn't think about it in his mind at all, and when he grew up and married his daughter-in-law, he knew how rich his grandfather was on the spiritual level. Since his generation, the status of Beijing men has plummeted, and whoever dares to treat his daughter-in-law like this will wait for divorce.

After following my uncle back to my grandmother's house, my grandfather hadn't come back from work yet, and only my grandmother and aunt were making dumplings in the house. The uncle brought Hong Tao into this yard, and even if he finished his work, he went to wash his hands and help his grandmother work. In Grandma's house, except for Grandpa, Grandma and Uncle, no one likes Hong Tao, because he is so naughty, in the old Beijing saying, he is out of the circle.

He could hold a grudge because his aunt wouldn't let him pull his pigtails, and then he dug a small trap at the gate of the courtyard, in which he used water and a pile of mud, and then stood aside and waited for his aunt to come back from school and try to sink her feet in and stain her shoes. As a result, the aunt didn't fall in, but Uncle Tai in the courtyard fell in. He can also kick other people's sandbags into the house because the little girl in the alley doesn't play with him, or break people's rubber bands, anyway, there is no day when he doesn't go outside to cause trouble, almost every day parents bring their children to the house to complain.

However, Hong Tao has not been punished once for these vices, because he has a strong grandfather and a younger uncle who he hates more than him as a backer. His grandfather's parents who had their children bullied by Hong Tao had only one answer: Where are the boys who don't hate them, and those who don't hate them are fools! If your children are bullied, they are your children's waste! Don't play together if you can't play together!

Don't talk too much to Hong Tao's grandfather, the old man is anxious to talk too much, and he will fight with other parents when he rolls up his arms and sleeves, who wants to fight with a 5o year old man in the alley, and you really can't beat him, you can only tell your children not to play with Hong Tao, or you will take your own children out of anger and scold a few words or beat him twice.

Although his little uncle can't deal with other children's parents, but he can deal with other children's brothers and sisters, whenever other children in the neighborhood are bullied by Hong Tao, and find other people's brothers and sisters to help take revenge, Hong Tao can run home, and call him little uncle while running, and then his little uncle will run out of the yard, stand in the alley, carrying half a brick in his hand, whoever is not satisfied will shoot whom!

If Hong Tao didn't run away and was beaten up by his brothers and sisters, then his little uncle would gather a group of children who were not good at school like him and were naughty all day long to intercept him at the school gate or halfway, and then get back what Hong Tao had suffered.

Why did the little uncle protect Hong Tao so much? His motives were completely different from Hong Tao's grandfather. Hong Tao's grandfather is a child who likes his own family by nature, plus protecting the calf, this is born and can't be changed. Hong Tao's little uncle's motives are very impure, he is trying so hard to help Hong Tao get angry in order to cheat money and spend money and eat good things from Hong Tao. Because Hong Tao's grandfather would often stuff Hong Tao with a bicent, and let Hong Tao buy candy to eat.

Hong Tao's parents and the old man have said countless times on this issue, don't give money to the child, he is still too young! But Hong Tao's grandfather didn't listen to a word in his ears, should he give it or give it! And this money became the activity fund of Hong Tao's little uncle, Hong Tao basically couldn't spend a penny, all for his little uncle to save, as long as his little uncle had anything fun and didn't take him with him, he would take out two steels, and the matter would be resolved satisfactorily.

Children born after the 8o years may not understand what a few cents can do, and now, when a few cents fall on the ground, most people will not bend down to pick it up, including Hong Tao himself. But in the '7o, not to mention a kid who hasn't gone to school yet, you grab a high school student and ask him, do you have 5 cents in your pocket?

What could you do with 5 cents at that time?

The first is to buy popsicles, the summer in Beijing was hot, there was no air conditioner, refrigerator, and even electric fans were rare, and the only thing that could quench your thirst and relieve the heat was popsicles. Whenever you are sweating profusely and your mouth is dry, you see a little friend next to you holding a snow-white cream popsicle, don't you be greedy? He doesn't eat it one bite at a time, but licks it with his tongue and sucks it with his lips, making the square popsicle into a circle, if you catch up with the child who likes to chirp, do you have the urge to go up and kick him down, and then snatch the popsicle and eat it yourself!

And this cream popsicle is exactly 5 cents a piece. This is still relatively high-end, the average child will not buy, their main target is 3 cents a small bean popsicle and red fruit popsicle, if the aunt who buys the popsicle has a fast popsicle in the car, she will sell you two for 5 cents.

In addition to popsicles, the porridge in the snack bar at that time was only 2 or 3 cents a bowl, a cup of beer was 1 cent, moon cakes were 1 cent a piece, and a bath was also 5 cents, and you could also buy 1o pieces of sugar without sugar wrapping paper, 4o small firecrackers, 4 two kicks, a piece of bubble gum and a number of cigarettes sold in pieces, etc., or spend 6 cents to buy two movie tickets, and many movie theater student tickets were 3 cents a piece at that time.

The little uncle is 13 years old, although he has not yet reached the age of the first love, but he already knows that it is a very glorious thing to have a little girl to play with him. So a piece of sugar, a popsicle, and a small eraser are the means for him to interact with the female classmates in their class, and most of this money has to be cheated from Hong Tao, and Hong Tao's grandfather usually won't give him money to spend.

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