Chapter Twenty-Seven: It's New Year
At this time, it really feels hard for a man to marry a wife, Zhang Tao watched the monkey on the side, and the guy called a few companions in the village to carry a pork of more than 200 catties and walked more than ten miles to meet the bride, and he felt that the egg was painful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBecause at this time, many places are dirt roads, there are few cars, and there are no motorcycles, and many times they rely on their legs. And when I went to greet the bride, I had to pick the pig to kill the head, although a few people changed to pick, but I felt a toothache when I wanted to go down that distance.
And the woman's side will not be easy, their family will invite some people to carry their dowry, what wardrobes, sewing machines, bicycles or something, are all large things to move to their husband's house, although they are all invited to the prime of life, but such a long distance is still hard. At this time, the richer the things to dowry, the more face the woman's family has, so the more she has to move.
Think about it and feel very troublesome, then like later, the two sides have determined the relationship, directly put the money to the mother-in-law's house, and then the mother-in-law's family will add some more to bring to her daughter, what furniture do you want to buy by yourself, this is too hard to move around, you young people to choose what you like, how convenient. At that time, the face will also keep pace with the times, no longer look at the number of furniture, but look at how long the fleet is when welcoming relatives, and how many luxury cars there are.
After the bride took over, the monkey's house was lively, and his group of young friends caught the two of them tossing hard, first hanging a piece of candy between the two newlyweds with a rope, so that the two were not allowed to use their hands and could only use the preparation to bite, and then after biting the candy, they fed each other noodles or something, and this tossing method would not be too far from the future tricks to die.
The monkey has always been quite bold, and he has become red and red when he is tossed by this group of guys, and he feels very embarrassed a lot of time, especially when his face is smeared with some rouge or something, it feels very funny, but he can't be angry. However, his newly married wife took the initiative more, making a group of guys laugh weirdly in the room. The sisters-in-law and aunts of the whole village all stood outside the door and watched these people toss, and then talked about the bride, and then watched the bear children who wanted to go in and join in the fun, and did not let them go in to see some inappropriate things.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve. On Zhang Tao's side, the New Year's reunion dinner was actually eaten at noon on the Chinese New Year's Eve, but they would get up very early in the morning, work together for this lunch meal, and prepare for the village to worship and pray together. The lunch was very sumptuous, and the whole family would get together for a reunion dinner.
However, before eating, every household in the team will prepare chicken, fish, and pig meat to gather together to worship heaven and earth, and pray for the blessing of the ancestors. Then everyone looked at the sacrificial offerings and commented on who was the best and the most willing. After worshipping, each family worships its own ancestors, this is separated, and after these are done, it is the reunion dinner of each family.
Zhang Tao's grandparents will eat together at Zhang Tao's house this day, Zhang Tao's family's income is good this year, so this reunion dinner is also very grand, this is not the point, the point is that the dishes on the reunion dinner are made by Zhang Tao, the eight big bowls are not only complete in color and fragrance, but also taste good, the family who ate is smiling, even the rice has eaten a lot more than usual, Zheng Hu and Zhang Tao's grandfather also drank a lot of wine, Zhang Cuihua and Zhang Tao's grandmother also drank some, most women in southern Hunan can drink.
The wine is still the kind of roasted grain wine, but there are some medicinal herbs soaked in it, which is used to ward off the wind and cold and maintain health. Zhang Tao's grandfather also let Zhang Tao and Daniel Zhang both drink some, spicy, after drinking into the stomach, the whole stomach feels like burning, Zhang Tao has not drunk much liquor, after drinking a sip of no longer drink, desperately sticking out his tongue. Several adults watched Zhang Tao's reaction with bad taste, laughing and groaning, and the atmosphere of the reunion dinner was also lively.
At night, the sound of firecrackers can be heard everywhere, but these are not as attractive to children as before, and what they are most looking forward to now is the new clothes they will change into after taking a bath immediately, and the pressure money that will be received soon, in Shonan, the pressure money is given on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Although the money will be collected by adults after the New Year, it is a good thing to be able to put it on yourself for a few days.
On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the adults in the village basically did not go out and stayed at home. On the other hand, the children will go to their respective friends' houses to play, and by the way, they will dry their new clothes and the New Year's money they have just gotten. Zhang Tao was not very interested in this set, and he did not show any special interest in the expectations of the new clothes, and he didn't even look at the New Year's money and went directly into his pocket - his New Year's money was wrapped in a red envelope folded by Zheng Hu himself with red paper.
"Zhang Tao, look, this is the leather coat that my father brought me from the south." A child of the same age as Zhang Tao in the village pointed to the clothes on his body and said to Zhang Tao angrily. This kind of clothing is really fashionable in this era, especially the badge with the word "public security" on the shoulder, although it is not a real police uniform, but it is enough for children, and it is very majestic to wear. Zhang Tao remembered that this was the style of clothes worn by the characters in a TV series, and it was the most popular style in the next two years.
Zhang Tao also had one in his previous life, but he was not interested in this kind of clothes now, but felt that the imitation military uniform in the style of his home-sewn Zhongshan suit was quite good to wear, with four pockets and many things. And the needle and thread are also very solid, and I can wear it for a year or two. And that kind of leather clothing is actually artificial leather, and after wearing it for a while, the skin will crack, and then fall off piece by piece, which is very ugly.
"My dad also gave me two yuan for the New Year." Seeing that Zhang Tao didn't take care of his new clothes, the bear child immediately took out a green two-yuan new bill from his pocket and took it out to dry, looking very proud. Zhang Tao rolled his eyes again after seeing this guy, if this was not his own home, Zhang Tao would probably have to turn around and stay away from this guy.
"You're only two dollars, and my dad gave us five dollars each." At this time, Zhang Yan on the side ran over, saw the bear child in front of Zhang Tao, and immediately held the grievances for his second brother, and then took out the red envelope containing his New Year's money, which was a brand-new old version of the five-yuan banknote.
The bear child on the side immediately stopped saying a word after seeing Zhang Yan's New Year's money, there was no comparison, and the money they got was five yuan, which was more than double their own. Seeing that the bear child was embarrassed to leave by Zhang Yanbi, Zhang Tao pulled the corners of his mouth, he just looked at his New Year's money, which was not five yuan, but ten yuan. This made Zhang Tao particularly surprised, ten yuan at this time could almost be used as a hundred yuan before his rebirth, he really didn't think that his parents would give him so much New Year's money.
At this time, the Spring Festival Gala had already begun, and Zhang Tao packed up his divergent thoughts and watched TV. This year's Spring Festival Gala has no memory of his previous life, he has no impression of whether he has seen it or not, so it is interesting to look again, but Daniel Zhang on the side is not interested, he changes the channel from time to time to see if there is a TV series to watch, but this night he is doomed to be disappointed, all TV stations have one program, that is, the Spring Festival Gala.
Sitting until twelve o'clock in the evening, Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yan had already gone back to their rooms to sleep, and there was no good TV series to watch for Daniel Zhang, which was why he went to bed so early. At this time, the sound of firecrackers began to be heard everywhere around, which was the New Year's greeting of the God of Wealth by the people of the village near them, which meant that the new year had begun, and 1992 had arrived.
Zheng Hu saw that it was already twelve o'clock in the evening on the TV, and immediately got up and took out a string of 10,000 firecrackers. Seeing that Zhang Tao hadn't slept yet, Zheng Hu immediately beckoned his son to join him, and the two opened the door and set off firecrackers. "In the new year, study and make progress, and get into a good university."
After setting off the firecrackers, Zheng Hu said this to Zhang Tao, they said these blessings for the New Year, for children, whether it is primary school, junior high school or high school, it is such a sentence, all-purpose. Zhang Tao also said to his father with a smile: "I wish my father a smooth work in the new year, good health, and all the best." ”
This kind of auspicious words for the New Year, Zhang Tao can spit out hundreds of words, no matter who they see during the New Year's greetings, they all say a bunch of auspicious words first. After setting off the firecrackers, Zhang Tao washed his hands and went back to his room to sleep, and he still had to get up very early tomorrow morning.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, you can't eat meat in Zhang Tao's hometown, so they usually eat some glutinous rice dumplings fried with vegetable oil and sugar, or just steam the previously fried sweet potato fries and eat some with sugar, and then the whole family goes to the ancestral hall in the village to worship the gods and ancestors, which is a must.
The next step is to pay New Year's greetings to the villagers, starting with the oldest family's house. However, in Zhang Tao's house, it is necessary to start with his grandfather's house, and the customs here are the cubs of the first year of junior high school, the lang of the second year of junior high school, and the third and fourth days of junior high school. Zhang Tao's family is a son-in-law, and he is considered a cub, so their family has to go to his grandparents' house to pay New Year's greetings first, and only after the New Year's greetings will they follow Zheng Hu to pay New Year's greetings to the people in the village.
The father and son walked to the family with the highest seniority in the village, and happened to meet another family in the village who also came here to pay New Year's greetings, so they congratulated each other from afar. At this time, the child of the family walking in front fell to the ground because of carelessness, and the child was about to cry after falling.