There are six people in the family, five catties of glutinous rice, which is completely enough to eat, and there are no sesame seeds grown locally, so it is no wonder that the two girls like it tightly.

"Slow down, don't grab it, there's still sesame seeds in my brother's bag." That's what he said, but the two girls still grabbed it happily.

Fang Dajun put down the harrow and went to get sesame seeds, but was stopped by his mother and asked him not to get used to his sister, but his father had a different opinion and asked him to get sesame seeds.

Come on, the father is the eldest in the family, and the sesame seeds are naturally taken out again, and the second sister also came to help.

When it was dark, and the family was ready to wash and sleep, he took out the gifts he had bought, which cost not much, but were all rare goods that were not available in the town, and the laughter from the hall lingered for a long time......

And he was naturally told by his mother to save a little, well, he has already reflected, and plans to take advantage of the requisition that has just been handed over in a few days, and there is new rice at the grain station, so he will directly purchase a large amount of rice and come back to hoard it at home, striving to be the first "rice brother" in the Beidou area.

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Early the next morning, the family changed into relatively decent clothes, because they were going to the secretary's house for dinner today, and they got married.

In the countryside in the central part of Shu, there has been a traditional folk custom of "Bai Bao Bao" for thousands of years.

In order for the child to grow up healthily and smoothly, the elders will look for a "baobao" for the baby soon after the baby is born, and this "baobao" should meet some conditions: first, good character, prosperous family, and healthy family. The second is to ask people to be willing to do "insurance". After the intention of both parties is agreed, the date of "please Baobao" is set. Of course, you have to ask Mr. Feng Shui to calculate the eight characters.

For Fang Dajun, this is a big baby, Yang Chuntao can be regarded as a big bargain!

Everything is according to the traditional old rules, and the parents have already prepared the items, including the big red rooster (symbolizing vitality), white sugar or rock sugar and other sweets (representing the sweet and sweet life), noodles and wine (representing longevity, eating and drinking), as well as a few feet of red cloth bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and red envelopes.

If you take in dozens of children, you don't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

At this time, the seventh uncle Fang Dongjian and the fourth master came to the house, as well as his father's own brother, his eldest uncle Fang Dongcheng's family.

The grandparents in this life have gone early, but there is no chance to be filial, my father has a big brother, but it seems that there is a contradiction, and he doesn't know the specifics, he rarely comes and goes, and he didn't come to visit last time he was injured, but he still asked his relatives to send a basket of eggs.

The eldest mother gave birth to three sons in one go, and a little daughter, two sons have already started a family, and today I brought my seventeen-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter over.

Because he needs relatives to witness the matter of worshipping Baobao, this is an old rule, and he must not be ambiguous, otherwise he will offend the "ancestors".

In addition, my father and three younger sisters all married into other communes, and they only moved around during the Spring Festival.

"Uncle, aunt, brother Minggen, sister Juanzi." Fang Dajun stepped forward to say hello, no matter how you say it, it was all handed down by an ancestor, what else could there be that could not be untied.

The mother also came up to greet her, and after waiting for a while, the father also came up and greeted him lightly.

In fact, the reason for the festival of the two brothers is that they have a son, the eldest has three sons in one go, and the old man likes his grandchildren, so the eldest family occupies the ancestral house, and let Fang Donghua take his wife and two daughters to the second team of Xinqiao below to start a new stove, which is enough. When the family was separated, the old man was eccentric again, ten percent of the things, the three daughters each accounted for one percent, Fang Donghua only got two percent, and the remaining fifty percent went to the boss.

To sum up, it is actually a matter of Chen sesame seeds and rotten grain, but because the two brothers have a good face, more than ten years have passed, and the relationship has still not eased. Another reason is that both families are poor, and neither one is strong.

But now it's different, Fang Dajun suddenly got his hair straightened, and he became a godfather with the secretary of the commune, and he was about to build a cement factory, and the boss Fang Dongcheng and his family pulled down their faces and ran to the door.

"Mingen, the silk is not ready to call people." Fang Dongcheng scolded.

Immediately, the brother and sister shouted, "Second uncle, second mother is good, sister swallow, the army ......"

The fourth master with high seniority also came out to play a round, and the army had promised to give his youngest son Fang Dongjian a place of worker, and the old man said that he had to be partial, so he counted it on the spot, "Dongcheng, the fourth master has to say a few words to you today, my second brother left early, you are the boss, you have to take care of this family, but look at what you have done over the years, and you don't know how to walk around your brother's house during the New Year's holidays."

Last time, the army entered the hospital, and you didn't come over, are you so an uncle, and Baihua (aunt) You are too, you are the eldest daughter-in-law, don't be so tight with your surname (stingy), Dongcheng He is a big man who doesn't understand this, don't you understand, and the Donghua family can't be like this anymore in the future.

Now that our old Fang family and Secretary Wang have become godparents, you brothers are making trouble like this, aren't they jokes when they are spread out. ”

The old man's level of speaking is really not low, and Fang Dongcheng couldn't raise his head directly.

Fang Dongcheng was already at a loss, and said stubbornly: "Donghua, I'm sorry all these years. ”

Fang Donghua is not a stingy person, he used to just lose face, but now that he has steps, he said: "Big brother, I have also made mistakes over the years." ”

"Hehe, okay, okay, just say it. Let's go to the commune, don't let Secretary Wang wait. The old man said happily.

Fang Dajun is a little foggy, mainly because he doesn't know the contradictory relationship here, yes, reconciliation is always a good thing.

Then a large family went to the commune, and when they arrived on the highway, they met many villagers who were going to the market, and naturally they had to say hello, and everyone knew that he was going to visit Baobao today, and this matter had spread in the commune.

He has earned enough face, but he doesn't want to make face in this way, it's disgraceful!

Killed all the way to the commune, or the movement was a bit big, Wang Hongwen and his wife were waiting at the door.

"Arm, come here!" Yang Chuntao shouted happily, in addition to some other factors, she really likes the army, and she can afford to be the godmother of the army at her age.

"Sure!" Fang Dajun blurted out, the gift is a bridge to get closer to the relationship, a bicycle can really move him, although this seems spineless, but he is not a saint.

Today, there is no one else in the commune except the two of them, even the chef Dong Chuncheng has gone home.

After a while, his mother, aunt and Yang Chuntao were busy in the kitchen together, Uncle Fang Dongcheng rushed to kill the chicken, a few men helped to sacrifice, as for the children, they were casual, the round table in the canteen was already full of snacks, and the children were still a little timid at first, but after Fang Dajun grabbed things and ate them at will, they all gradually became active, there were really a lot of good things on the table, Yang Chuntao didn't spend a lot of effort, and he went to the town to make a big purchase.

After the rooster is slaughtered, the chopsticks should be inserted to straighten the head of the chicken, and it should be raised, then it will be put into the pot, boiled until it is seven or eight mature, and the whole chicken will be put into the basin, so that the rooster can maintain the shape of the head high.

In addition, there is a piece of square pork butt meat with skin, which is also cooked for seven or eight years, plus a glass of spirits, which is the "knife head toast" as the sacrifice says.

In the central part of Shu, when relatives hold a sacrificial ceremony, they put undercooked pork or smoked Sifang bacon in a pottery bowl and place it in front of the incense to worship, commonly known as the knife head, which is a necessary item for the annual sacrifice. The knife head is made of two-knife meat, that is, the piece of meat close to the hind leg after the pig's tail is removed, and some poor people would also use tofu instead of tofu in the past.

The rest of the incense wax paper candles are naturally indispensable, the paper is earth yellow paper, but after the purchase comes back, it should be cut into a rectangle, and the "iron money claw" should be used to mark it on it, the shape is like a "C" shape, and the rows are full, and there will be a little spacing in the middle.

Jiaoshan is remote, the atmosphere of feudal superstition is extremely strong, there are many rules with superstition, and Fang Dajun has also received a lot of passively, believe it or not, because superstition is also part of the tradition, to borrow a sentence: "The national is the world." ”

The incense case has been placed, in fact, it is two long benches together, putting the head of the rooster, the knife head meat, plus a bucket of fruit on it, the direction of the bench is just outside the gate, the direction does not need to be particular, the back to the peach house can be.

The commune did not have a peach house, so it chose the middle of the office building, in front of the bench, there were two banana festivals, which were used to insert red candles and incense, two candles were inserted, and three incense sticks were selected, which were already lit.

Usually, when the sacrifice is made, the woman has to avoid it, and she is not allowed to approach, at most, she runs to hurriedly "make a move" when it is almost over, and then she has to flash. And the so-called "arch" is not the ancient kind of arch hands, but the hands in Buddhism, bending down and bowing three times, which is a combination of Taoism and Buddhism, not authentic, but it is a local custom.

At this time, the white-haired fourth master stepped forward, holding a stack of yellow paper in his hand, and began to recite the words, "Today, there is a Fang family Dongzi generation, Fang Donghua's son Fang Dajun, worship Yang Jiachun's character Yang Chuntao as a protector, please rank the ancestors and ancestors......"

After chanting something, Fang Dajun couldn't hear it clearly, the fourth master was chanting the prayer, his hand didn't stop, and he had already torn a stack of yellow paper, because this paper was overlapped and typed with "iron money claws", so it was glued together, and it had to be torn apart one by one in order to facilitate burning, and it was also a respect for the ancestors.

The fourth master then lit the torn yellow paper on the candle, and at this time he had to pay attention, and he must not run in front of the fire, so as not to collide with the ancestors.

At this time, the party Yang Chuntao also prayed with yellow paper, no wonder the public society cleared the venue today, Wang Hongwen's identity is sensitive, and it is not good to spread superstition in public after all.

Yang Chuntao specifically asked Mr. Feng Shui in advance, and at this time, he acted in a good way, and finally lit the yellow paper in his hand.

This step is to tell the ancestors on both sides and the heavenly immortals to know about this matter, so at the beginning, Fang Dajun would say that it was very formal to worship Baobao, and the power of sacrifice would sometimes be greater than the constraints of the law.

Then the rest of the relatives and family members can come and burn the yellow paper, and when the flame is almost extinguished, pour the liquor on it, and the sacrifice is complete.

There will be three sacrifices in ordinary families, one is the Guanyin Bodhisattva and the ancestors enshrined on the wall in the hall; The second is in front of the kitchen stove, worship the stove king Bodhisattva, bless the food is sufficient; The third is outside the peach house, worship the rest of the gods and Buddhas, and burn a pile of paper money on the side of the dam to worship the wandering spirits passing by......

Originally, it was supposed to be in the peach house today, but the conditions here did not allow it, so it was moved outside the gate.

Also, Fang Dajun should have been handed from his mother's arms to Yang Chuntao's arms today, which was the completion of the ceremony, but he was already a "big baby" and couldn't hold it, so his mother took him and handed him over for Yang Chuntao to lead.

Then Yang Chuntao sent him a pair of chopsticks and new clothes, and the two families exchanged red envelopes, guaranteed to receive big red envelopes, and sent back small red envelopes.

It's finally ok.,Now the "knife head meat" will be cut, the whole dish will be eaten, and the chicken will naturally be eaten, and eating offerings is not excessive, and most of the temple offerings have not been eaten by monks.

When the meal is served, you have to put a string of firecrackers, on behalf of the celebration, the relatives of both sides enter the table together, eat a meal of "Baobao" family, and then they will often walk around each other during the festival, and the family relationship between the two families will continue for a long time!

After experiencing this, Fang Dajun thought it was very interesting, in the later generations, the neighbors in the city were all closed, and there were few acquaintances with each other, and the child was also an only child, recognizing such a formal godfather was equivalent to having one more close relative, which was actually very good!

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