drank Moutai, smoked China, Wang Fumin's New Year's Day wine was enough for the scene.

Wu Youguang sat in the first place, and then Wang Fumin was in the second position, and next to him were Ma Zhentang, Su Yulong, Liu Yujiang, He Jiaqing, He Jiaxiang and He Fakui.

Wang Shaodong's group of juniors were not idle, several of them of the same age gathered a table at Zheng Hui's house, and Wang Shaodong was persuaded to the position of number one.

This year, the Wang family is in Taohualing Village, but the scenery is infinite.

Everyone was happy during the New Year, and then at the noon wine field, Wang Shaodong and they drank until more than half past one in the afternoon.

After drinking, Wang Shaodong and the others started playing poker again, and they didn't go home until half past nine in the evening.

During the Chinese New Year, all of the old and young are all playing with flowers, and they don't care about any taboos. The children are playful, and the adults are left to them.

I played for one day on the first day of the Lunar New Year and continued on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

In some places, the Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then the relatives begin to visit on the second day of the new year. The customs here are different in Taohualing Village, where the year is three days old, the Chinese New Year's Eve is busy, the first and second days of the new year are greetings, the so-called New Year's greetings are actually playing.

Each family has prepared a sumptuous meal, melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried beans, raisins, candies, etc. are essential, and then there are pistachios, pine seeds, cashews and other valuable dried fruits in good family conditions.

On the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, when the dark shadow is on around five o'clock, it is the time to send the family hall.

The ancestral tablet is enshrined on the table in the family hall, and the ancestor who invited him over on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve has been in his children's and grandchildren's house for two and a half days, and then he has to go back where he goes.

Only a stick of incense, a cup of wine and a bowl of tea were used to invite the ancestors, but when they were sent to the ancestors, they had to ask for a pile of yellow paper, a large number of firecrackers and salutes. As the saying goes, it's easy to invite God, but it's hard to send God, the ancestors are all gods from God, if you stay here in your grandson's house and don't leave, it will be troublesome.

The Wang family was lively on the first day of the new year, but on the second day of the new year, it was deserted, especially when it came to the family hall, it was even more lonely.

The Wang family has been passed down for several generations, and by Wang Shaodong's generation, it is already the thirteenth generation.

It is also a strange story, the thirteenth generation of single transmission, even if the roots are not broken, it can be regarded as the ancestor of virtue.

Wang Shaodong's ancestors fled the famine to Taohualing Village, and then married a girl from a local family surnamed He in Taohualing Village, and later had a son, and then multiplied until Wang Shaodong's generation.

The rules set by the ancestors back then are still in Wang Fumin's mind and have to mention it to Wang Shaodong, that is, when Wang Shaodong grows up and looks for a daughter-in-law, he must not find someone with the surname He.

Later, Wang Shaodong thought about this regulation and felt a little strange. In the consciousness of the older generation, it is a good thing for an aunt and cousin to become a parent, why did the ancestors decide that they could not marry a girl from any family?

Wang Shaodong guessed that it was probably possible.

Since it is said that this rule was set by the ancestor surnamed Wang, it must be that the family surnamed He was not good to him at that time, and they were extremely disgusted with him, so they made such an unreasonable rule.

And there is a saying in Taohualing Village, called "He Yan Mo Jiao, Sun family is even worse". It is said that the villagers surnamed He and the villagers of Taohualing Village surnamed Yan cannot socialize, and the family surnamed Sun has even worse conduct.

Of course, this statement must be one-sided and inaccurate, but there are such statements around Taohualing Village, and even all the way to Dazhai Village.

Judging from this, coupled with the rules set by the ancestors, it can be seen that the ancestors were not angry with the He family.

Even Wang Shaodong sometimes wonders that the thirteenth generation of their family is like being cursed, is it also related to that strange regulation?

Looking at the lonely figure of himself and his father when he sent the family to the house, and then looking at the enviable team of the Wu family and the He family, Wang Shaodong secretly thought in his heart, the next step is to have more sons.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I finished sending my family hall, and on the third day of the Lunar New Year, it was the day to return to my parents' home.

The customs around Taohualing Village are slightly different from other places, and many places across the country return to their parents' homes on the second day of the Lunar New Year, while Taohualing Village is surrounded by the third day of the Lunar New Year.

As for the custom of inviting the family hall, setting up the family hall and sending the family hall, there are many places where there is no such custom. Not to mention the distance, let's just say that Li Hong, who is only less than 200 miles away from Taohualing Village, has the habit of going to the grave of his parents and grandparents during the New Year, but he does not have the habit of enshrined the ancestral tablet in the family hall.

In many places, the ancestral tablets are enshrined in the ancestral hall, and the family goes to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors during the New Year's holidays.

In some places, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, instead of worshipping ancestors, you go to the temple to worship the gods and pray for blessings.

Anyway, in different places, the customs of the New Year are still very different.

It is a fixed custom to return to one's parents' home on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and then from the fourth day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is a day to visit relatives and friends. In the past, when everyone's economic consciousness was still very weak, everyone did not say that it was the idea of working a day earlier to make more money, and at that time, there were many relatives of the seven aunts and eight aunts, and they had to leave one by one, maybe they would not be able to finish by the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

And in 2002, the original custom of seeing relatives from near and far became weaker and weaker, and it became only close relatives, and then the rest of the relatives stopped moving.

Many people start work on the sixth day of the first lunar month, so there is no effort to go to relatives.

Wang Shaodong's grandparents died as early as when Wang Shaodong was in elementary school, and then his grandfather also died when he was in the first year of junior high school.

Grandma's health is very good, until 2017, at the age of 83, she is still very healthy and lives alone.

In 2002, Wang Shaodong's grandmother was 68 years old.

At eight o'clock in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year, the Wang family was packed up, and then Wang Shaodong drove their second-hand era light truck, along the dirt road at the head of the village to the west, first to Luohanyu Village, and then from Luohanyu Village to the south, over a mountain, and then along the road pressed out by the Lhasa cart, and then turned to the road to Qingquanling Village.

Qingquanling Village is much larger than Taohualing Village, and Wang Shaodong's grandmother's house is on the vegetable garden in the northernmost part of the village. It was a vegetable garden of dozens of acres, and each family was allocated one or two points of land, and when he was a child, Wang Shaodong often picked up other people's radishes from the vegetable garden and then went to a low well in the middle of the vegetable garden to wash and eat. The water in that well was almost at ground level, as if it was never dry.

The light truck was parked in the empty yard in front of his grandmother's house, and Wang Shaodong got out of the car and saw that his grandmother and uncle were standing at the door with a smile and waiting.