Wang Shaodong's uncle Zhao Shitang is only seventeen years younger than his grandmother, and he is fifty-one years old this year.

Back then, when Wang Shaodong's grandmother was fourteen years old, she followed her mother, that is, Zhao Shiling's grandmother, along the mountain road, from North Zhaolin Village, Yanzhuang Town, under the jurisdiction of Luzhong County, all the way south to beg for food, begging for more than 40 miles, and when she arrived at Qingquanling Village, she only begged for less than a pound of dried sweet potatoes.

In Qingquanling Village, Zhao Shiling's grandmother is a kind person, she pitied the mother and daughter, so she used boiled water to make two pancakes for the mother and daughter to eat.

Later, Zhao Shiling's grandmother saw that there was a pile of dried sweet potatoes in the corner of Zhao Shiling's grandmother's house, and knew that this family would not starve to death, so she left her daughter in Qingquanling Village and gave it to Wang Shaodong's grandfather Zhao Chengseng as his wife. At that time, Zhao Chengseng was only one year older than Wang Shaodong's grandmother, only fifteen years old at the time.

In the past, the age of marriage in the countryside was very early, Zhao Shiling's parents got married when they were fourteen or fifteen years old, and then they had children at seventeen or eighteen; Zhao Shiling's eldest brother Zhao Shitang also got married at a very young age, and he was engaged when he was just a sophomore in high school, and he got married immediately after the second year of high school, and he was only seventeen years old at that time.

Then Zhao Shihai had his eldest son Zhao Yubin when he was eighteen years old, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter, but the younger son died of an emergency when he was four years old.

Zhao Yubin was born in 1970, was 32 years old by 2002, has been married for seven years, and has a six-year-old son.

Wang Shaodong's grandmother is only 68 years old, and she has been in the same house for four generations, so I have to say that there are still some benefits to getting married early.

In his previous life, Wang Shaodong remembered that by 2017, his grandmother was 83 years old and still very healthy. At that time, the son of his eldest cousin's family was already 21 years old, and with the fine tradition of early marriage and early childbearing of the old Zhao family, Wang Shaodong estimated that in a few years, his grandmother would be in the same house for five generations.

Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Shaodong drove over the mountains and mountains, from Taohualing Village to Qingquanling Village, and parked the car in a vacant lot north of his grandmother's house.

This open space is a wheat field, and now this empty space is idle and useless, and it is better to be a parking lot.

After getting off the train, Wang Shaodong's family of three went to the back carriage to get gifts to visit Wang Shaodong's grandmother.

After all, I made a fortune last year, so the gifts of the Wang family this year are particularly rich.

The Wang family was too busy a year ago, so they didn't come to grandma's house in advance to send off the New Year, so when they came to see the elderly on the third day of the new year, they paid special attention to it.

A few years ago, Wang Shaodong bought ten boxes of Moutai, a total of 60 bottles, a bottle cost 280 yuan, and a total of 16,800.

These wines were sent two and four bottles when they arrived at Wu Youguang's house a year ago, and then given two bottles to Ma Zhentang, Liu Yujiang, Su Yulong, He Jiaqing, He Jiaxiang and Zheng Changyou's family, and four bottles were drunk at noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then Wang Shaodong and Wang Fumin drank a total of two bottles in the evening. In the end, there are sixty bottles of Moutai, and now there are thirty-eight bottles left.

came to visit Wang Shaodong's grandmother today, and Wang Shaodong brought a total of eight bottles of Moutai.

53 degrees of Moutai reached a historical high of 320 yuan a bottle in 97 years, and then the price has been hovering around 300, in 2002 it was quite cost-effective to buy wine, 280 a bottle is definitely a relatively low price in recent years.

Wang Shaodong walked towards his uncle who greeted him with a smile and his grandmother behind his uncle with a smile on his face and eight bottles of Moutai in both hands.

Wang Shaodong's eldest concubine's parents have passed away for many years, so every year on the third day of the new year, Wang Shaodong's uncle's family does not have to go to relatives, but stays to serve Wang Shaodong and his family.

Wang Shaodong's second concubine is also from Qingquanling Village, because of its proximity, so every year on the third day of the new year, Wang Shaodong's second uncle Zhao Shitao will drink some wine at his mother-in-law's house, and then go to Wang Shaodong's grandmother's house to accompany Wang Fumin to drink a little more. Wang Shaodong's second uncle has a cousin who is two years younger than him and is now in the first year of high school in Luzhong No. 4 Middle School.

And Wang Shaodong's three concubines' house is relatively far away, so they can't come back on the third day of junior high school, and then when they come to the fourth day of junior high school, Wang Shaodong's three uncles will go to Wang's house in Taohualing Village to visit Zhao Shiling.

Seeing that Wang Shaodong was carrying something in his hand, Wang Shaodong's uncle Zhao Shitang hurriedly greeted him: "Dongzi, your grandmother was still talking about you just now." ”

"Ah, Moutai, good guy, Dongzi, you are really generous this year. ”

Without waiting for Zhao Shitang to catch up, Zhao Yubin took the first step to take over the things in Wang Shaodong's hand.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Shaodong's cousin Zhao Mei also came out, and Zhao Mei was followed by Wang Shaodong's eldest concubine.

"Aunt Binzi is here, hurry, hurry up to the house to warm up. ”

Zhao Shitang's wife took the sausages, grilled chicken, and soybean milk powder that Zhao Shiling was carrying.

And Zhao Mei smiled and wanted to pick up the things in Wang Fumin's hand, and when she saw that it was a whole pig's hind leg, at least thirty catties, she frowned.

Wang Shaodong's cousin Zhao Yubin and cousin Zhao Mei are not tall, Zhao Yubin is about 1.68 meters, while Zhao Mei is just over 1.5 meters and is very slender.

"I'll come, go to the house and make tea for your aunt and uncle. ”

Zhao Mei agreed, then turned around and ran into the house.

Wang Shaodong's grandmother's house is a tiled house built in the early 80s, with blue bricks and green tiles, a very high foundation, and five steps to enter the house. Wang Shaodong remembers that when he was four years old, he once fell down the five steps, and there was a place on the back of his head that did not grow hair, because he fell at that time.

The floor of the house was originally earth, but it was only last year that it was covered with sand and a layer of red bricks.

The earthy ground is prone to rats and insects, and because of rats, there are also snakes. But fortunately, the snakes in this area are not poisonous, and after encountering them, they just make people feel quite scared.

There was a stove in the house, and it was much warmer than outside.

Zhao Mei and her mother took Zhao Shiling's hand and sat on the head of the bed in the easternmost part of the room, pulling the housework.

Before Zhao Shiling got married, she had been coaxing Zhao Yubin and Zhao Mei in her mother's house, so her relationship with Zhao Yubin, Zhao Mei and Wang Shaodong's eldest concubine has always been very good.

Wang Shaodong's grandmother looked at everything in front of her kindly, and then Wang Shaodong, Wang Fumin, Zhao Yubin and Zhao Shitang sat on the sofa drinking tea and chatting.

Zhao Yubin's wife and son went back to their parents' house by themselves, and then Zhao Yubin had to wait until he saw off Wang Shaodong's family, and then went to his mother-in-law's house to drink at four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

Relatives care about each other, help each other, and meeting and talking are also very speculative, which is what Wang Shaodong likes.

Everyone chatted for a while, and then Wang Shaodong's eldest concubine went to work Zhang Luo's meal, Zhao Mei took the initiative to help, Zhao Shiling wanted to help, but was stopped by Zhao Shitang and didn't let her work hard, saying that she came to be a guest today, but she couldn't do it.

Drinking at noon, Zhao Shitang mentioned that as he got older, he couldn't do this carpenter job anymore. Then Wang Shaodong on the side began to think about it, it seems that he should absorb his uncle as well, be his own hired worker, see where there is light work, and let him do it.