As the end of the year approaches, the weather is getting colder. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Finally, the weather was gloomy again.

In the blink of an eye, Grandma Tu's birthday has arrived. Mom and Dad went to give gifts, and I sat in the house watching movies to pass the time. According to the rules of Ueno Township, birthdays are celebrated on the night of birth, and the noise does not end until midnight. The next morning, birthday celebrants invite the person who gave the birthday gift on the previous day to brunch. The reason why it is brunch is because the preparation is too delicate. Often when someone in the family has a big birthday, the women in the family are always very hard. Because on the second day, when the guests were preparing to give gifts and celebrate their birthdays on the first day, the women would always get up at three or four o'clock, turn on the lights, and prepare time-consuming cooking tasks such as stewed soup and steaming. This busyness will continue until the dishes are served and the guests are almost full. If there are guests staying at home to play cards the night before, at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the woman will also hot soup and rice for them to play to prevent hunger in the middle of the night. So whenever someone in the family has a birthday, there are always a few tired women who can't straighten their waists behind the carnival of the guests.

But fortunately, it is not often that such a big deal happens. In Ueno Township, except for the 12th and 18th birthdays, the rest of the children's birthdays are not wantonly organized. At most, the family will kill a chicken, fry a few children's favorite dishes, and then make a bowl of longevity noodles. In this way, until the child grows into middle age, until he is thirty-six years old, he will usher in the first lively birthday of adulthood. At this time, both men and women have already married and started a family, and this birthday also has the meaning of celebrating the birthday person who has started a family. After the thirty-sixth birthday, I didn't start celebrating my birthday again until I was sixty years old. People over the age of 60 have to celebrate their birthdays every year, but not every birthday is the same. There are specific differences. For example, every ten major operations, every five small operations. There are different regulations on how many bowls of steamed vegetables and how many plates of stir-fried vegetables in this big and small operation. Later, the customs were gradually simplified, and there was nothing particularly elaborate. But the old man's birthday banquet on the tenth birthday to show the grand several steamed dishes are indispensable. After sixty, every ten is a happy birthday, and omitting nothing can not save the celebratory atmosphere. And those time-consuming and labor-intensive steamed dishes are the guarantee of warm hospitality for guests and hosts.

Mom and Dad didn't come back in the evening. Nine times out of ten, Dad will be playing cards there, and Mom will probably stay there to help the next day. Although the total number of people in the village is now less than twenty, Aunt Tu's eighty birthday is not ambiguous at all. Do what you have to do, and don't slack off because there are few guests. The 80th birthday is the first time in my memory of Dage Village.

After nightfall, the firecrackers never stopped. There are people who wish birthdays, and there are people who respond to the main family. The sound of long and short firecrackers was mixed together, and there was no one outside the column, and the sound was very loud.

The mountains are very quiet after winter, except for the occasional cow mooing of Hua Ye's house and the barking of dogs from nowhere, only the sound of the slowly flowing Qinghe River remains. The people who remained in the village were only a few scattered families, separated by a long distance, and the sound of each other's activities could hardly be heard. So the sudden sound of firecrackers became louder than before. Coupled with the barrier of the valley, the sound reverberates. I still seem to hear the sound of fireworks in the middle of the night, but by then I was already sleeping.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the second day, Brother Chunyuan came to the house and called me to eat. Although he was a little lazy to move, he couldn't refuse, so he packed up and prepared to go to Grandma Tu's house. Brother Chunyuan saw that I agreed, so he rushed to the next invitation.

Brother Chunyuan is five years older than me, and he is the eldest grandson of Grandma Tu. Although his face is not bad, due to the fact that his personality is not very lively, he has not yet talked about friends and marriage. A young man who is not married, everyone sees him as a child according to the old rules. So this errand work fell on him without hesitation. Although Brother Chunyuan is also a big man, he did not have a trace of complaints because of this.

Even now that communication is developed, the favor is still there. On the second day, when you invite the birthday greeter to dinner, you should show your sincerity. It's not a good idea to make a phone call, so it's best to find someone who is quick and flexible.

After packing up, I arrived at Grandma Tu's house, and it was already past ten o'clock. There were already many people sitting or standing in the courtyard of Grandma Tu's house. They may be chatting with tea or joking with melon seeds and candy. If you look closely, you can see that some of them are familiar faces who have come back from the city to give gifts. I said hello to the elders one by one, and then went to the kitchen to find my mother.

The kitchen was full of people, and in the thick mist, my mother was busy chopping vegetables. As soon as he saw me, he couldn't help but push me out: "What are you doing here!" Don't get in the way! Get out and get out! ”

I couldn't, so I had to quit the warm and inviting kitchen and find a chair in the yard to sit down. The aroma from the kitchen fills the cold winter air, coupled with the lively laughter, which seems to bring people a long-lost smell of fireworks. All of a sudden, the empty village of Dage seemed to regain its former vitality.

After grinding with an aunt next to me for a while, I went into the house to see what my father was doing. Unexpectedly, when he quit, he accidentally found Tan Xi's aunt.

Tan Xi's aunt is a lot older, and she has also made a lot of fortune, she leaned on the sofa and sat in a daze, next to a pot of burning anthracite brazier.

Yu Boniang, who was sitting next to her, saw me at a glance: "Xiaocao'er, it's cold, don't go out to blow the wind." Come and sit ......."

They are all elders who watched me grow up, and I was not polite at the moment, so I smiled and pulled a chair and sat next to Aunt Yu and them, and watched a strange woman next to Aunt Yu feed Aunt Tan Xi medicine.

I have never seen this man, I don't know who it is.

"Sister Tan family, how many times a day do you have to drink this medicine?" Uncle Yu asked Aunt Tan Xi, who was in a daze.

"Twice a day. Once in the morning and once in the evening. The strange woman replied as she shoved a few pills into Aunt Tan Xi's mouth.

Yu Boniang sighed, stopped asking at the moment, and silently wiped the corners of Aunt Tan Xi's drooling mouth.

I was taken aback and looked up at Aunt Tan Xi's eyes. It was a pair of eyes that held nothing, calm like a pool of stagnant water that could not turn up the slightest wave. She let the people around her swing her over, well-behaved like a chubby big doll.

Looking at it, I wondered in my heart: how could this be...... Aunt Tan Xi doesn't seem to be right like this~

In my confusion, the woman who was called the eldest sister of the Tan family took out several kinds of medicines in her bag, red, green, yellow, long, flat, and round pills. She quickly pressed the pills and fed Aunt Tan Xi according to the amount in different categories, and it seemed that she was already familiar with it.