Chapter 17 It's the New Year

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after breakfast, the four brothers of the Zhang family had already come, and the originally not very large room was crowded, and there was no place to stand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Because the children of the four elder brothers' families are basically managed by their own mothers and rarely come to play, almost no one in the room in the early summer knows each other, and the old lady also knows, and quietly introduces next to the early summer, "One of your eldest brother's sons is a bolt, and the bolt is also married, and there are already two children, and two daughters are also married, and the five daughters of your second brother's family are also married, and the four daughters of your third brother's family are also married, and now there is only one youngest daughter left, who is 12 years old this year, and is very pampered, and your fourth brother's family is also four daughters, The two eldest ones are also married, the third will get married next year, and the youngest is 10 years old this year, and like her mother, she is also uneasy. ”

After listening to the old lady's words, Chu Xia secretly smacked his tongue in his heart, this population base, no wonder family planning should be implemented.

Father-in-law Zhang Laosan simply assigned their respective tasks, the old men cleaned the dust on the roof, and by the way, they were mending the roof, so as not to leak wind and rain when it was windy and rainy, and the women were responsible for making dumplings for the grave in the afternoon and meals for dinner, probably because the four brothers had been vaccinated at home in advance, and the four sisters-in-law did not have any moths this time.

Several big men of the Zhang family all wore a paper hat on their heads, and one person took a bamboo stick, and after a while, the house was a lot cleaner.

The women are also busy in the kitchen, don't look at the four sisters-in-law's personality is not very good, but they can't stand the work of others, and in early summer, they can't help as much as when they were at their mother's house, the old lady saw that she really couldn't intervene, so she told her to take a few children to play, in fact, the children are all older, and they don't need to be taken at all, the old lady just just found a reason to block the four sisters-in-law's four broken mouths.

Since we received the old lady's task, we can't slap the old lady's face, no, pretending to take a few children into their own house, take out the toys prepared for the babies, one person gave one, let them stay in the house to play together, a few children are quite obedient, and they have a lot of fun.

After a while, the babies woke up, because there were a few more people in the house, although these people were children, but in early summer they were still a little embarrassed, so they didn't feed the babies their own milk, took out the bottle and brewed two halves of milk, and fed one hand just impartially. There were several sounds of swallowing saliva next to 'Gudu' and 'Gudu', and I didn't need to look at it to know that it was a few children who were hungry, and I didn't lack these mouthfuls of milk powder from a few children, so I told a few children to get a bowl, and one of them made a bowl, and several children drank it with relish, and said while drinking; "Ah, it's really good wine." It made Chu Xia laugh so much, the hands holding the bottle were shaking, and the angry two little buns used their cries to express their protest and appease the little buns, and Chu Xia then freed up his mind to ask the doubts in his heart, "Katsunan, who did you learn this from." ”

The third sister-in-law's Shengnan replied without hesitation: "Dad." ”

I asked a few other children, and they all said that they learned from their fathers, and the old Zhang family is really a family history.

In the afternoon, the men of the family went to the grave, and the women were not allowed to follow, this was the rule left by the ancestors.

The women who were left behind were also not idle, preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, holding the child in the kitchen in early summer and directing the four sisters-in-law to make dry seafood that the four sisters-in-law had never made, that is, she moved her mouth to think, the four sisters-in-law did it, in fact, she would not do it, in her previous life, her family was not a seaside rarely ate seafood, these practices were still copied in space, mainly because none of the four sisters-in-law was literate, or they didn't even have to move their mouths, just prepare to eat directly, don't look at the original owner like this, but because of the love of the father, I also graduated from high school, and I feel very fortunate to think of this, because we also plan to resume the college entrance examination and take a prestigious university to make up for the regret of not going to a good university in my previous life.

Under the verbal guidance of this not very clever master in early summer, the four sisters-in-law really made a few plates of decent seafood feast, saying that the wind is the rain in the early summer, and let the four sisters-in-law make a lot of crab roe buns, the reason is that they are greedy, and when this reason can only be put in their hearts, she will never dare to say it.

The long-awaited Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was finally served, a total of two tables, the men sat at one table because of drinking, the women took adults and children to a table, two small buns were also held by the old lady and early summer one by one, the father-in-law first sandwiched a chopstick dish, and the others began to move the chopsticks, which showed the status of the father-in-law's family.

I couldn't wait to clip a crab roe bun, take a small bite, and suck a mouthful of soup. A few children saw that they ate like this in early summer, and they also followed suit, taking a bite and sucking again, making an aftertaste, learning nondescriptly, causing adults to laugh and scold.

The children's mouths are full of oil, and the women don't care about the image, and they eat the dishes in large gulps, which may also be the reason why they have never eaten such a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. The men's table is also pushing the cup and changing the lamp, you toast me a cup, I toast you a cup, the atmosphere is so unhappy.

When the food was rising, several sisters-in-law also said a few auspicious words to the old lady.

The sister-in-law stood up first and raised her glass, "I wish my mother and father good health and all the best." ”

followed by the second sister-in-law, "I wish my mother and father a happy new year and a long life." ”

Then came the third sister-in-law, "I wish my mother and father happiness and everything goes well." ”

Next is the fourth sister-in-law, "I wish my mother and father more than every year, and every year is safe." ”

Finally, it was the turn of early summer, I cleared my throat and said: "I wish my mother and father good luck, five blessings, and good fortune, Wishing you prosperity, and bring the red envelope." ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand mischievously, and several children also learned to stretch out their little hands in early summer, and said in unison: "I brought the red envelope." ”

The old lady and her father-in-law Zhang Laosan were amused and said that the red envelopes cannot be distributed now, and they will not be able to distribute them until tomorrow morning. If you don't get the red envelope, the children will sit back in their seats with their heads on their heads, turning their grief and anger into appetite, and they will eat nonsense again.

Looking at this lively atmosphere, the old lady remembered the little son who did not come back for the New Year, and missed it for a while, and saw that the old lady was thinking about Zhang Jianjian, her eyes rolled, and she secretly used chopsticks to occupy a little wine in the old lady's cup, pretending not to know that the old lady had seen it, and put it in the baby's mouth, watching the baby frown spicy, and the unscrupulous old mother laughed badly in early summer, and the old lady couldn't stand it, and reprimanded: "You are such a mother。。。。。 "A thousand words are omitted here, the old lady really has the essence of being a Tang monk, Balabala without a pause, seeing that she has successfully diverted the attention of the old lady, she sighed in early summer, if you want to be a filial daughter-in-law, you must first be prepared to be a Monkey King, because every mother-in-law lives in her heart a Tang monk.

This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten until ten o'clock in the evening, adults need to keep the year, children do not need to go to bed early, early summer because of the two babies and children get the same treatment.

Early summer was woken up by the sound of firecrackers outside, and today is the first day of the new year, waking up in the morning

When I woke up in the morning, I saw that there was already goose feather snow outside, and it was a good omen.

Wash your face with peach water, the water that has washed your face can't be poured out directly, you can only pour it out today, I asked the old lady what the reason is, she said she didn't know, only knew that her ancestors had been passed down from generation to generation.

You can only eat vegetarian dumplings, and you have to eat eggs and rice balls, and the rice balls here are only filled with brown sugar. After breakfast, a few children gave the adults a New Year's greeting, gave the New Year's money, even two small buns, a few children went out with the New Year's money, the men are also going out to pay New Year's greetings, the elders who are close to each other, and the good friends who play all need to go, women can't go, don't ask, this is the rule of the ancestors, congratulations you will answer.

The old lady and father-in-law Zhang Laosan do not need to go out to pay New Year's greetings, as long as they stay at home and wait for others to come to pay New Year's greetings, a morning time, people come and go, endlessly, in early summer also under the introduction of the old lady, I met a lot of people, and the most listened to is that your little daughter-in-law is really handsome, rural people have not read any books, and they praise and praise that sentence, but in this simple compliment, I see the simplicity and reality of rural people.

In the afternoon, there was basically no one, early summer breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and then in the afternoon, my face would really stiffen, and the old lady said, take a nap on the kang for a while, dinner is still a family together, this is the last reunion dinner, starting tomorrow, the four brothers will eat at their own house.

The noisy day has finally passed, and I am used to the cold human relations during the New Year in my previous life, and it is really uncomfortable to suddenly be so enthusiastic between people.

Time flies, early summer has not been relieved from the lively atmosphere of the New Year, in a blink of an eye to the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival, at this special time, the Lantern Festival is very simple,

There is no dragon and lion dance, only the old lady with her own skillful hands to a child to tie a lantern, are small animals, vivid, the old lady also specially used noodles to steam the lamp and the dragon, after doing it with old cotton to make a wick, pour oil and light it and put it into the lantern.

On this day, it is also necessary to send lamps to the deceased elders, of course, this is still by the men, and the grain must be placed on the top of the noodle jar to bless the grain harvest in the coming year.

Out of the New Year, these little dragons and noodle lamps can be eaten, but the old lady said that women can't eat them, and they will grow beards if they eat them.