Chapter 31: Graduation Ceremony

In the haze, Tang Yu heard the sound of artillery and was woken up again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info She kicked the quilt away angrily, looked at the alarm clock at the head of the bed, and only slept for half an hour, and then lay on the bed and continued to sleep.

"Ah Yu, come out quickly!" Tang Yu doesn't care, he is dead, please burn the paper if you have something, just to continue to sleep.

"Ah Yu, come out quickly!" Tang's mother knocked on the door vigorously outside, and she couldn't pretend to be dead at this time.

Tang Yu opened the door and looked at Tang's mother helplessly, "What are you calling me for?" ”

"Your uncle and your aunt are here, you come out to talk to people, and you have to eat the first cookie, and then you can give it to others." Tang Ma explained with a smile that she didn't stop smiling today.

The eldest uncle and aunt were sitting on a stool in the hall, the two were talking, and Tang Yu's cousins and a few children were gathered around the basket where the cookies were placed.

"Uncle, aunt!" Tang Yu called them. She poured two cups of cold water from disposable cups and handed them to them.

The eldest aunt put the boiling water on the table next to her and didn't drink it, took out a red envelope from her pocket and stuffed it to Tang Yu, and then took out a cookie from the basket where the sweetbread was put and handed it to her, saying: "Today's lucky star is going to eat the first sweet cake, and after eating, he will rise step by step, smooth and smooth, everything will be successful, and he will be rich and profitable!" ”

There is a red dot in the middle of the crust of the cookie, which is ordered by the store, and it is also auspicious. Tang Yu took a bite, it was so sweet, Tang Yu wanted to ask where the store bought the white sugar, it was so cheap that he was willing to give it so much, and told her to let her save some money.

Aunt Tang and Mother Tang looked at her and motioned for her to finish eating.

Tang Yu poured himself a glass of water, and after eating a bite of the cookie, he drank a sip of water before eating the cookie. She will feel too tired of the sweetness that others think is just right.

In fact, in order to save some money, people who sell cookies will put less sugar, and if the people who buy cookies buy cookies are not sweet enough, they will be said to be not generous enough. In order to make it beautiful, Tang Yu's aunt specially added money to the seller to make him sweeter.

The eldest aunt sent a total of two baskets full of sweet cakes, because it was too heavy, a person could not carry these sweet cakes all the way to give away, so Tang Ma went to ask the neighbor to borrow two baskets, put the four baskets of sweet cakes into these two baskets, gave each child a sweet cake, and left some to eat at home when someone came to the house.

Tang's mother invited three familiar aunts to help deliver cookies, and each of them picked up a burden and gave them a red envelope, which was also auspicious.

After they left, the uncle and aunt sat down, and Tang's mother went to stir-fry with Tang's father, in order to save time, the gas stove was also used for stir-frying. They have a tradition that if they are too busy to take care of it, they will not let the guests help with the stir-frying, unless the person is particularly good at cooking.

The eldest aunt said to Tang Yu with a smile: "I haven't heard your mother say that you are so good at studying before, and suddenly you broke out to be the first in the city, and when I first heard it, I couldn't believe it, and I asked your mother several times." Your grandma said that she has a granddaughter who won the exam, your brother and your sister haven't even finished junior high school, and your grandma doesn't have a few grandchildren who are good at studying, so you have to take the university exam and come back to make your grandma happy. She still wants to come today, so I said that her legs and feet are inconvenient and she should not come, and you can go and see her again another day when you have time. ”

Tang Yu nodded in response.

Since she was a child, the conditions at home were not good, and her grandmother would often take her to raise her for a few days and then send her back. The age difference between each of my grandmother's children is several years old, and the youngest cousin of the eldest uncle's family is the same age as the eldest brother, because Tang's mother got married earlier, and the children of Tang Yu's siblings and the younger uncle's family are about the same age. Grandma eats and lives at her uncle's house, helping them with housework or watching the children, so Tang Yu almost always lives with his grandmother at his uncle's house and has a big quarrel with the children of his uncle's family. Later, some unpleasant things happened there, and Tang Yu didn't like to go to his grandmother's house anymore, and he didn't like to go to relatives. Going to grandma's house once a year during the Chinese New Year is also urging Tang's mother to go home quickly, and Tang's mother threatens not to agree to her next time, so Tang Yu and her grandmother meet for a very short time a year, two hours? Three hours? No, because Tang Yu would go to his uncle half of the time. Every time Tang's mother went to see her grandmother, her grandmother would say why Tang Yu didn't come, and Tang's mother would say every time that Tang Yu was oysters or went to sea, whether she didn't like to come over or really went to oysters or went to sea, this is the answer. The old man gradually knew that he could only see Tang Yu when he went to his relatives during the Chinese New Year, so he stopped asking.

Tang Yu thought of these and felt that he really shouldn't be.

Before I could say a few words to my uncle and aunt, my sister-in-law's family and my aunt and uncle also arrived.

Uncle, aunt and Tang Yu stood up to greet each other.

After the eldest aunt got out of the car and entered the house, she also gave Tang Yu a red envelope, and said to her that she was going up step by step, but the sister-in-law had not given it before.

Because Tang's father was the eldest son, and Tang Yu's grandfather died of illness very early, he took on the responsibility of the family, earning money to support several younger brothers and sisters, and thus delayed the family, until he was thirty years old before he was introduced to marry Tang's mother, at that time the village and his age gave birth to several children who could make soy sauce.

The eldest aunt and sister-in-law are also very grateful to Tang's father, after the two get married, they will often send rice and grain to Tang Yu's family when they have surplus grain, and their relationship with their family is no worse than their biological brother, that is, Uncle Tang Yu's family.

The adults greeted each other and sat down, and the living room suddenly became cramped.

The uncle, aunt and uncle were talking about the harvest and other things, and the women had their own topics, talking about the shortcomings of their families.

Tang Yu poured a few cups of cold white water for the sister-in-law and asked them to eat the sweet cakes on the table.

She took a sweet cake and handed it to her cousin Xiao Daoming, and said with a smile: "Today is also your graduation ceremony, although I can't eat the first one, I still have to eat a meaning." ”

Xiao Daoming took the sweet cake, lowered his head slightly, and ate it in small bites.

The eldest aunt got up and walked into Tang's father and Tang's mother's room, and when she came out, she handed a red envelope to Xiao Daoming, saying: "When I came, I didn't know that you also graduated at this time, and my aunt didn't have much money, you quickly accept it, I wish you academic progress and progress step by step." "The guest will call the same guest according to the host's house, so the eldest aunt calls herself aunt to her cousin.

Xiao Daoming glanced at his sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law nodded, and then he said thank you and accepted it.

My sister-in-law said to my aunt, "It's embarrassing to let you break the bank." ”

The eldest aunt smiled and said: "I'm not a generous person, I want to be a good intention, and everyone will rise step by step in the future." ”

The sister-in-law smiled happily, "I accept your good words." ”

"Her aunt just speaks nicely!" The aunt felt that Tang Yu's aunt was really good at being a person.

"It's a clumsy mouth! Fortunately, you don't dislike it. The eldest aunt was a little embarrassed, and asked the sister-in-law again, "Where did he get in?" ”

"Yesterday I received an admission letter from No. 5 Middle School." The sister-in-law's tone was modest, and it was difficult to hide a bit of pride.

"That's also very good, and the fifth middle school is relatively difficult to get into! Ah Yu also chooses five middle schools for so many scores, and his cousin and cousin will be close to his family in the future! The eldest aunt sighed that most of the candidates can only go to Qingsong Middle School, and Tang Yu's brothers and sisters are, so the fifth middle school is really good.

"Not only in the same school, but also in the same class, when the principal of the fifth middle school came to me to study in the fifth middle school, I mentioned it, and he agreed very happily." Seeing that they were chatting happily, Tang Yu told the news to make them even happier.

"That's a good idea!" The sister-in-law looked at Tang Yu and was very grateful, she was just thinking about the same school before, it would be good for Tang Yu to occasionally guide Daoming, but she didn't expect that she also asked the principal to arrange for the two to be in the same class, Tang Yu really took this matter seriously. The sister-in-law intends to cultivate; The relationship between the two sisters and brothers said to Daoming: "Daoming, your cousin is so good to you, you must remember your cousin's goodness in the future." ”

Xiao Daoming glanced up at Tang Yu and whispered "thank you". At this time, the sister-in-law felt that it was really not a good thing for her son to be silent.

Everyone else said yes too.

Tang's mother came over and said that the food was almost ready, and it was ready to open the table, and she was going to call someone she knew to come over for dinner.

Uncle and aunt came, Yuanyuan and Yuanyuan's parents also came, and other acquaintances, and the people who helped deliver the cakes also came back.

There are three tables in total, one for men, one for women, and one for children.

There are a total of 16 dishes on each table, in addition to the must-have white-cut chicken, fish maw soup also has fried pigeon, boiled shrimp dipped in chili sauce, oyster spring rolls, braised pork ribs, salt-baked bird eggs, etc., and only one cashew nut mixed with fruit and hot mustard greens is vegetarian on the whole table.

Now the decency of this banquet is comparable to the banquet held by some people who get married or enter a new home.

This kind of banquet is something that Tang Yu's family can't think of in the past, just before the Dragon Boat Racing Festival, every household in Lujiao Village was lively in front of the door, and Tang Yu's family was closed, because even if their family tightened their belts and lived, they couldn't make a decent table, so they didn't dare to invite people to come to the house to be lively, and they were afraid that other people would come to invite them to eat, so they closed the door to put an end to this embarrassment.

At that time, Tang's father and Tang's mother would never have imagined that their regrets for the Dragon Boat Festival could be made up for in such a short period of time, and this was all because of Tang Yu's graduation ceremony, and the most important thing is that the family's economic situation has improved after selling steamed buns.

Their family eats porridge with fish for breakfast and lunch, and only eats rice and stir-fried vegetables for dinner. In order to save some food expenses, Tang's mother almost always waits for the market to go grocery shopping, because the leftover fish and vegetables will be cheaper. Sometimes the fish seller will ask Tang's mother to wrap the tail is to let her buy the rest of the fish to be cheaper, and Tang's mother will buy all the fish back and dry it into dried fish when she sees that the price is cost-effective. The fish and vegetables bought in this way are really not fresh.

Now, although the family still has two porridges and one rice a day, Tang's mother finally doesn't have to wait until the market is about to disperse to buy vegetables, and there will be no big fish and meat, but she can eat fresh fish and vegetables.

Tang's father and Tang's mother listened to the rave reviews of the guests, and their hearts were as happy as flowers, and it was only now that they really agreed with Tang Yu's insistence on taking so much money out to hold a banquet.

Yuan Yuan and Tang Yu sat at the table that belonged to the children, and the two of them feasted, and they didn't feel embarrassed at all to grab food with the younger children.

After sending off the last guest in the house, cleaning up the banquet and washing the dishes, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and Tang Yu began to feel sleepy again.

She went to take a shower and came out and told Tang's father and Tang's mother: "I'm going to sleep, don't wake me up." Don't ask me to eat, let someone go back if someone comes looking for me, and don't wake me up unless it's on fire. ”

Tang Ma spit out a mouthful of saliva and rubbed it back and forth in the palm of her hand, and said in her mouth: "Bah, Da Ji is, there are no taboos." The child is not sensible, don't worry about her. ”

Tang Yu was speechless, he had never seen her so taboo before, and when she came back, she became like this.

Tang Ma said very seriously: "You can't say this kind of thing again in the future, the Buddha can forgive you once, and there can't be a next time." ”。

"Got it, go wash your hands."

"You'd better get up and eat dinner." Dad Tang said.

"I just finished eating, I'm not hungry, I'm not eating, I'm going to sleep." She turned and walked away, took two steps and turned her head and said, "Remember, don't wake me up." ”

Just like not liking to go to relatives, Tang Yu also doesn't like to entertain relatives. I'm really tired, and I can finally sleep peacefully.