Chapter 57: Mid-Autumn Festival
Everyone was worried for a while, and Lin Guilu didn't know how to clean up the mess his father had made. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info But if you don't want to find a way to solve it, I'm afraid that the problem will get worse and worse in the future. Just like Yusuo said, the father and the son repay the debt, can he still deny this account? He held his head in his hands sadly, and rarely showed his vulnerable side in front of his wife and children.
Lin Guilu still remembers that when he was a child, his family was not so poor at the beginning, and his family had some family background, but unfortunately his parents couldn't live. Can't open the source, and can't save the flow, the husband and wife are good at spending money, and the family has good food and clothing when I was a child. But by the time Lin Guilu was six or seven years old, the belongings left by his grandfather had almost made his parents defeated. Thanks to the fact that there were still people in my grandfather's house, I sold the remaining ancestral business and moved it to the south bank of the Taidong River, which was not too far from my grandfather's house. bought more than ten or twenty acres of land, and several uncles said cruel words to his father, if he dared to sell the land again, he would break his legs, which gave the family a way to live. The average countryman can have more than ten or twenty acres of land, which is not a small amount of money. But his parents didn't know how to farm at all and didn't want to plant, so they gave the land to others to plant. In this way, although there is not much left after deducting taxes and tenants' share, as long as the family is careful about budgeting, they can eat enough. happened to meet such a pair of parents who were out of tune, and my father took the food to exchange for wine and meat, and invited a group of so-called sworn brothers to eat and drink. At the most difficult time, there was not a single grain of rice in the jar at home, and my father forced his brothers and sisters to borrow two catties of grain from someone else's house to go home. As a result, he cooked his own dry rice, and ate it all, regardless of the few children who stood by the pot and looked at him. His five brothers and sisters can only be hungry and full, and his mother still believes in marrying her husband. It wasn't until the brothers were a little older and followed the villagers into the fields to learn how to do farm work, and the family was a little better. The old man saw that his sons were older, and he didn't dare to treat his family like in the past. This is the nightmare childhood of his brothers, seeing that the old man is relapsing to his old ways, Lin Guilu doesn't want to go back to the past.
Lin Yujuan saw that the family was silent, she thought for a while and said: "It's not wrong for my father to be in debt, but my grandfather is not only our father's son, but also the uncle and the third uncle." But now it is less than a tael of silver, and it is as if we are facing a great enemy, and others cannot understand us at all. Otherwise, after Grandpa owes it twice, everyone will pay attention to this matter, and Dad, you can discuss this matter with Uncle and Uncle San. At that time, it must have been the three brothers working together to solve Grandpa's affairs. I guess they have to take grandpa back to the countryside, after all, it's too easy for grandpa to go to the street to pay debts when he lives in the town. ā
Lin Guilu then remembered that this was not only his family's business, but also two brothers, and the three brothers would discuss it when the time came. Thinking of this, he felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden.
"Okay, listen to Xiaojuan first, I'll pay attention to the old man's movements. Let's wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, don't disturb everyone's holiday at that time. Lin Guilu lowered his voice and said to his family: "Okay, let's disperse quickly." ā
After hearing this, everyone went back to their rooms lightly, and everyone was naturally still thinking about it in their hearts, and secretly discussed it in private.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, at the suggestion of my grandparents, it was decided that the three brothers' families would come together to celebrate the festival at Lin Guilu's house in the town. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion, and there is also the custom of worshipping the moon. In the past, my family was very poor, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was very simple. It's just boiling a bowl of water chestnut, making a few New Year's cakes (sticky cakes, made of glutinous rice flour), and a few bowls of boiled water to worship the moon. The children of the village went around the village in groups of three or five, and when they saw that there was no one at the table, they quietly touched it, took a New Year's cake, and drank the tea. This is said to cure bedwetting. And the New Year's cake is stolen by others, which can eliminate the disaster for the owner's family.
But this year, under the guidance of grandma, it was a bit grand. Thirteen or fourteen bought osmanthus wine, red-skinned two-cornered old wind ling, apples, whole lotus roots, persimmons. In addition, we also have duck and fish to eat during the holidays. On the fifteenth day, the market on the street only had a morning market, and at noon everyone closed their stalls and went home for the festival. The shops on the street were also closed for the holidays, and the Lin family also closed the doors of the shops at noon. And Lin Guilu had breakfast, and went from the town to the countryside twice before taking the two brothers' families to the town. Lin Yukou came back at noon on the fourteenth, and now the whole family was reunited.
The reunion dinner at noon was made by Qi and Lin Yujuan sisters, seasonal lentil roasted duck, water chestnut braised pork, cold lotus root, and sauerkraut fish and several other dishes that are not usually eaten. The three families sat at two full tables, the men drank osmanthus wine, and the women also sat at a full table to chat about family life. It was very lively for a while, and after lunch, the uncle's family was worried about the pigs raised at home and hurried back. Lin Guilu worked tirelessly to send his brothers back to the countryside.
After dinner, Qi made eight New Year cakes with glutinous rice flour and packed them on plates, and Lin Guilu carried the square table to the courtyard with a jade button. Then put on the whole branch of lotus root, New Year cakes, as well as water chestnut, persimmon, pear, apple. Finally, pour three bowls of tea, (it is said to be used for Wu Gang to sober up). Today's weather is very good, the night is falling, the jade rabbit is rising in the east, and there are gusts of fresh wind. After burning incense and firing guns, the family bowed to the moon and saluted, which was regarded as a ceremony, and then everyone sat in the courtyard to admire the moon and chat. It's just that the atmosphere is not too harmonious, and the Qi family took the initiative to chat with the Jiang family. It's just that Jiang is still holding a shelf, but he just responded a few times without being salty, and he didn't mean to chat at all. Qi Shi found a boring child, and he didn't want his hot face to stick to people's cold butts, so he turned his head to chat with his daughter.
Lin Guilu saw all these in his eyes, there was no way, his mother-in-law had done her best. He could only chat with his mother in the interval between chatting with the old man and his sons, for fear that she would be unhappy. Lin Guilu felt very uncomfortable when he thought that he might have to send his parents to the countryside after the festival. I thought about waiting for everything to be said, but I was afraid that my parents would be angry with me, and I wouldn't want to see myself in the future. There is a touch of sadness in my heart, but I also cherish today's Mid-Autumn Festival night even more.
And although Lin Yujuan chatted with her family, she inevitably had to "miss her relatives every festive season". I thought of my relatives and friends in my previous life.