Chapter 41: The Great Dinner
"Come, come, this is the fourth grandmother's gift to you. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Little Liusi grandma took out a few red envelopes, one for each person."
"Thank you, fourth grandpa, thank you, fourth grandma." Several children said at the same time, and also took the red envelope handed by the fourth grandmother.
"Fourth brother, why did you remember to go back to your hometown at this time?" Grandpa Xiaoliu asked curiously.
"If you suddenly feel homesick, you will come back to see it, and I don't know how many years from the next time." After Grandpa Liusi finished speaking, he picked up the tea and drank a few sips.
The two families haven't chatted for a while, and everyone in Zhaojia Village knows that Zhao Qiyong of the Zhao family dragged his family back from Yunyang.
At this moment, the whole village was lively.
After Zhao Xiaoliu and the others greeted her uncles and uncles, several people ran to a few nearby houses to borrow benches. I couldn't sit in the house, so I went to the courtyard and sat under the tree. In the two years that Xiaoliu has been here, there have never been so many people in her family.
From time to time, you and I say one sentence at a time, and it is very lively to talk and laugh.
Her eldest sister and second sister used all the bowls for eating at home, but there was still not enough water for anyone to drink.
"Wanru, Wanmiao, don't be busy, we are not thirsty, just take a water ladle and drink cold water when you are thirsty. Come and sit down and watch you two get hot. Xiaoliu's second grandmother said to her sisters, there are too many people, and there will be no hot water for a while.
"Come, come, these two children can really be busy, we just came to see your fourth grandfather's family, let Wanru, Wanmiao is tired." Xiaoliu's third grandmother also took over and said.
Her eldest sister and second sister smiled, and said that they were just boiling some hot water, not tired, and turned around and went to the kitchen again.
In this way, the whole family talked and laughed until the evening.
During the afternoon chat, Xiaoliu's grandfather discussed the next thing with a few brothers from the family, and in the end, each family had to give some money and eat it all at her house.
The yard of her house is big, and she is saying that her grandfather is the eldest among these brothers, so why should he eat at her house first.
Now it's okay, the whole Zhaojia Village is busy, a wave of people go to the town to see what they can buy, a wave of people go to their own vegetable fields to pick vegetables, and a wave of people are dividing the labor.
Xiaoliu and the others also had to go to more than ten households in the village to borrow benches, and the little brothers and little brothers of the family moved the table and served the dishes, so they ran for most of the village.
The corner of the courtyard of Xiaoliu's house is full of borrowed tables, benches, dishes and the like, just like the people who used to do happy events in the countryside.
The people who went to town also came back and bought a lot of stuff to come back.
One family couldn't cook for so many people, so they had to divide into several families to cook together.
In the end, the second grandmother's family made the staple food, the third grandmother's family made cold dishes, the fifth grandmother's family made stir-fried vegetables, and her family made roasted vegetables.
In the evening, ten tables were set up at the door of the courtyard of Xiao Liu's house.
If there are more people to help, this will do things quickly, and by the time the meal is served, all the food will be ready.
After setting the dishes, at this time the seats were divided, Xiaoliu's grandfathers and grandfathers sat at a table, Xiaoliu's father and more than 20 cousins were divided into two tables, and her fourth grandfather came with four sons, and there were two people on one table.
And Xiao Liu's grandmothers sat at a table with a few eldest daughters-in-law, and Xiao Liuniang sat with some of her aunts.
In the end, there are full of five tables of people in the sixth generation, not including those little dolls in my mother's arms.
Xiaoliu is very happy, she has been here for so long, and it is the first time that so many people have come to her family.
In the end, there were still a few children who had nowhere to sit. Arrange people on the tables of grandmothers and uncles. That's not all, the aunts and brothers and sisters who didn't come to the Zhao family.
The six brothers of the Zhao family, counting from her grandfather's generation, to her father's generation have become twenty-four cousins, and after these twenty cousins have their own families, there are now more than 30 brothers and brothers of a great-grandfather in Xiaoliuguan, not counting those sisters.
Xiaoba let her mother take it, Xiaoqi and her grandmother sat at the same table, Xiaoliu and her five sisters, and the sisters and sisters of her three uncles' families sat together.
There are not many girls in the Zhao family, only the six families have the most girls.
Her eldest uncle's family has three sisters, the second uncle's family has two sisters, and the third uncle's family has one sister and one younger sister. The little sister also let her third aunt carry her to the adult's table.
Two of the four tables are the older brothers who are six years younger, and the other two tables are the sisters and sisters of the sisters-in-law with her other grandmothers, and the last table is a few younger brothers and the little brothers who are not married, not counting the few daughters who are married.
In the summer, it gets dark late, and it's not even seven o'clock when everyone has had dinner.
There are many people and great strength, and it didn't take half an hour to return all the things that should be returned, and several uncles came to Xiaoliu's house with buckets to carry well water, and washed all the dishes and put them in buckets to take home.
The little sixth grandmother swept the yard with a few aunts.
It was about half past seven, and when it was getting dark, everyone was busy, and the older generation went into the courtyard to chat under the trees.
Half of her father's brothers are gone, and the younger ones of the sixth generation are almost gone, except for the brothers who are married. The daughters of each family, except for her grandmother's generation, also went home separately, and the courtyard of the little six family was also a lot quieter.
Xiaoliu can't take a bath first today, even if a lot of people leave, but now there are still thirty or forty people in the courtyard, and she is embarrassed to dress so casually.
The adults chatted, and they didn't know how to talk about her father's storytelling, and everyone in the yard knew that her father went once every two or three days.
This adult is no less curious than a child, and several uncles in the family laughed and asked her father to tell them about it.
Seeing that the people of the previous generation were looking at him, Little Sixth Father coughed and smiled.
"Go to the man opposite us and say, stand or sit, whatever you want, but you have to tell me well."
The little sixth grandfather spoke, and the little sixth father had no choice but to walk to the place her grandfather pointed out.
"Eldest sister, my father is talking in the courtyard, are you going to listen?" Xiao Qi ran into the house and said to them, Xiao Qi likes to be lively.
"I'm not going, what my dad said, it's not that you haven't heard it, what's so good." Xiaoliu lay on her bed and said, she had heard everything and listened to something, she said that she would not go.
"Go, Dad, no matter how many times I say, I love to hear it." Her eldest sister and Xiaoliu think differently and support her father very much.
"Then you don't go yet, I hear Dad, coughing." Xiao Liu said lazily, go sit and see if it is comfortable lying on the bed.
As soon as Xiao Liu finished speaking, she saw her sisters walking out. At this moment, Xiao Liu suddenly felt that she was abandoned.
Xiaoliu shook his head and said to himself, you are really hypocritical. I've lived in this group for a long time, and I'm really not used to leaving her alone in this room.
Xiaoliu had no choice but to lie on the bed alone in a daze, complaining in his heart.
Or go out now? Jokes, what my sister said, that's also a spit and a nail, if you don't go, you won't go. If you don't steam steamed buns to fight for breath, you can't be so ashamed, let yourself go back on your word, Xiao Qi will see the jokes.
Xiao Liu stayed in the house here, and his little ears were pricked up to listen to the sound outside. After a while, there was a burst of laughter outside.
I don't know how long I listened to it like this, and Xiao Liu's eyelids were fighting. When did the person leave in the end, it is not clear whether she washed it or not, because Xiaoliu fell asleep and slept very deeply.