Chapter 16 New Year's Goods (2)
When his father Tian Hezhuang heard this, he unconsciously turned his head and glanced at Tian Limai.
Father Tian Hezhuang didn't expect that so many things had happened to the girl of the single family, if that was the case, the girl of the single family really didn't necessarily agree, but his father Tian Hezhuang seemed to be unwilling, even if that was the case, he should give it a try, and finally fell in love with a girl!
Mother Yang Meizhen's breakfast is cooked, "The rice is cooked, eat breakfast!" Mother shouted from the stove house.
Tian Limai and his father Tian Hezhuang went to the stove house to eat, because they were afraid that chickens or dogs would stain the soybean milk that had just been pushed out and the soybeans that had not been pushed, his sister Tian Liyu said: "Dad, brother, you go to eat first, or my brother will bring me a bowl out, I will guard the mill, afraid that the chickens or dogs and cats will stain the mill!"
After Tian Limai went to the stove house to serve a bowl of rice, he walked to the eaves and said to his sister Tian Liyu: "Sister, you go to eat, I will watch while eating!"
When her younger sister Tian Liyu saw her brother Tian Limai coming out to eat with rice, she said, "Brother, how do you eat vegetables?"
"Sister, I've put a lot of vegetables in the bowl! Tian Limai said.
My sister Tian Liyu went to the stove room and walked out with a bowl of rice, and said while eating: "Brother, you go in and sit and eat with your father and mother, I can do it alone here!"
"Sister, Mom and Dad have a meal, you don't need me to accompany you, the two of us take turns watching the mill!" Tian Limai said.
The brother and sister stood by the mill to eat, and talked about some gossip while eating, and the younger sister Tian Limai said: "Brother, I haven't been to the town for a long time, it is said that the movie theater in the town has been newly renovated into a three-D movie theater, our teacher said let's go see a show, and there is a new blockbuster called "Langya King", but unfortunately it is too far, it takes two days, and I have to rest overnight in the middle!"
"Sister, the movie theater is newly installed, but it costs thirty or forty yuan to watch a show, and a good film costs more than sixty yuan, although I study in the town, but I have never been there, and in the future we all go to college, and when we have money, we will build a three-D movie theater in our village, so that everyone in our village can see it every day!" Tian Limai looked at her sister Tian Liyu, and said while chewing with a mouthful of rice in her mouth.
"Brother, of course what you said is good, but it's a pity that it's too far, now it costs so much money to go to see a show, we only need two yuan for a lunch at school, and we have to eat more than a dozen lunches to watch a movie! Sister Tian Liyu shook her head and looked at Tian Limai and said.
The siblings each took turns to refill the meal three times before finishing breakfast. After breakfast, my father still didn't change his original intention, and insisted on going to Jinziao, my mother Yang Meizhen only sighed and didn't persuade her, Tian Limai knew that even my mother didn't persuade her, and my father must go, because, in the eyes of my father Tian Hezhuang, this is Tian Limai's lifelong event!
However, Tian Limai, who has already told his father Tian Hezhuang, seems to have calmed down a lot, even if his father went to Shan Duoyi's house, Xia Lizhou may not go home at all and mention going to Shan Duo's family to talk about the matchmaker, all of them are Tian Limai's guesses and imaginations, but that's it, Tian Limai is not a lie, at least Tian Limai himself thinks so!
His father, Tian Hezhuang, went to Jinziao, and Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu were in charge of grinding, and his mother Yang Meizhen was in charge of adding grinding.
It took about three or four hours to finish ten catties of soybeans, during which mother Yang Meizhen and sister Tian Liyu did not mention that their father Tian Hezhuang went to Jinziao, perhaps they were afraid of causing Tian Limai's displeasure!
After grinding and pushing, Tian Limai went to rest, and the next thing was for her mother Yang Meizhen and sister Tian Liyu, boiling the soybean milk and putting on the plaster, which is generally done by women!
After her mother Yang Meizhen and sister Tian Liyu were busy, they were done, and they ordered two large pots of tofu for ten catties of soybeans, and then their sister Tian Liyu helped their mother Yang Meizhen put the tofu in the tofu box. People in this area of Wuling have a particular idea, the New Year's tofu must be on the tofu box, the New Year's Day is called to eat one by one, can not be scooped up and boiled after the paste is usually ordered, commonly known as eating "water tofu", the New Year is not able to eat "water tofu", this is also a kind of New Year's custom!
Originally, her mother Yang Meizhen wanted to beat the New Year's dumplings in the afternoon, but her father Tian Hezhuang was not at home, and there was no artificial nest, so she gave up, and her mother Yang Meizhen said: "You have to be at home with your father!"
Because his father Tian Hezhuang was not at home, he couldn't make glutinous rice cakes, and seeing that the year was indefinite, his mother Yang Meizhen said to Tian Limai and her sister Tian Liyu: "Mai'er, Yu'er, it's the New Year, your father and I killed the New Year's pig in order to wait for Mai'er to have a holiday, so that Mai'er can also eat a 'soup', and today our family's New Year's pig has not been killed, in the afternoon, Mai'er and Yu'er, the two of you will go to Ertaiping's 'pig killer' Wang Linsheng's house, and ask him to come tomorrow morning to kill the New Year's pig for us!"
Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu heard that tomorrow morning to kill the New Year pig, the two of them were very happy, in the countryside for the killing of the New Year pig, is a happy event, the day of the killing of the New Year pig will be close to the relatives, friends are invited to the house to eat "soup", lively and lively, when killing the New Year pig, the child can burn the "pig chain" (the pig chain is also known as the "hair chain" is the pig's spleen) to eat, you can also use the pig urine bag with fire red wood ash planing, blow into a balloon like to play, than the balloon is safe and much fun!
Ertaiping is not far from Shangsitai, and it won't take much time to get there, and after her mother Yang Meizhen warmed a bowl of egg rice for Tian Limai and her sister Tian Liyu, she let the brothers and sisters set off. When leaving, her mother Yang Meizhen said to Tian Limai and Tian Liyu: "Brothers, don't play on the road, go and go back quickly, and when you come back, you have to talk to your grandfather, grandmother, uncle, and second uncle's family, please come over and help, and invite them to come home to eat 'soup'!"
"Mom, grandpa, grandma, uncle, and second uncle, let's wait for my dad to come back and talk to them, right?
"Mai'er, forget it, your grandparents' house, your father has been inviting them year after year, but they are very busy, they haven't been here for a year, and they won't be too lazy to invite this year, and it's too late for you to come back from Ertaiping!" said her mother, Yang Meizhen.
When Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu went to the house of Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer" in Ertaiping, it happened that Wang Linsheng was at home, and Tian Limai said to the "pig killer" when he entered the house: "Uncle Wang Li, my mother asked me and my sister to ask you to help my family kill pigs tomorrow, I don't know if Uncle Wang Li is free?"
"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng's family has two guests, also came to invite Wang Linsheng to kill pigs, Wang Linsheng listened to Tian Limai's words, smiled and looked at the two guests in the house and said to Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu: "Brother and sister, don't worry, I'm tired of walking all the way, drink some boiling tea first!"
As soon as Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu sat down, Wang Linsheng, the "pig killer", shouted to his lover in another room: "Right guest, pour some tea for the two children, the two children are tired!"
The word "right guest" is the unique honorific title of the man in Wuling Mountain for his own woman, people are accustomed to respecting the "right" as the greatest, the "left" as the second, the woman is married from the outside, is the "guest", but this "guest" is the "long guest", the "guest" who does not leave, is the guest has to respect her!
After a while, the right guest of the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng poured tea for Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu, and the brother and sister took it and drank it!
Speaking of this boiled tea, it is a major feature of Wuling Mountain, this boiled tea is the old tea leaves picked back by the tea farmers in the tea garden in autumn, after drying in the sun, and then specially made zuò is the tea, but this tea can not be soaked in water to drink, can only be boiled in the fire with a clay tea pot to drink, so it is also called "boiling tea"!
"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng saw that the brother and sister were drinking tea, so he said to the two guests: "Tian Hezhuang and his wife are not ——," Wang Linsheng beat and then said: "The two of them look beautiful!"
"Tian Hezhuang and his wife are disabled and sick, but they have never heard that they don't laugh and reconcile, the two have never quarreled, and the two fine babies are well-behaved, which can be regarded as Tian Hezhuang and his wife have accumulated good fortune!" One of the two guests said.
"Pig killer" Wang Linsheng looked at Tian Limai and his sister Tian Liyu again, and said with a smile: "You brothers and sisters are finally here today, I have been thinking about it for the past few days, why haven't you come to invite me to kill the New Year pig in your house, okay, tomorrow morning from your New Year pig to start killing, go back and tell your parents, boil the water early!"
Tian Limai saw that the "pig killer" Wang Linsheng agreed, put down the boiled teacup that had been drunk and said, "Uncle Wang Yu, thank you, our family will be waiting for you tomorrow morning!" After Tian Limai finished speaking, he pulled his sister Tian Liyu and went to the house of Shangsitai!
"Pig Killer" Wang Linsheng and his right guest wanted to get food for Tian Limai and his sisters, but Tian Limai politely resigned!
The brother and sister were walking on the road, and the younger sister Tian Liyu said: "Brother, just now Uncle Wang Yu and those two guests were talking about our family, I felt very uncomfortable listening to it, what happened to my father being disabled and my mother being sick?
"Sister, let them talk if they want to, and they don't have any malice, just a little sympathy!" Tian Limai said.
"No, brother, we don't want other people's sympathy, and we don't allow others to talk about it, although Dad's left leg is a little lame, and Mom has a cough, but our family is much happier than those families, Dad and Mom never beat us, unlike some families, parents have violent tendencies, and beat people at every turn, and Mom and Dad never quarrel, although I do a lot of housework at home, but I am happy!" Sister Tian Liyu said seriously.