It turned out that when Zhang Mingyu and the fourth brother Minghong were plotting in the study, several children of the second uncle's family and the whole family arrived one after another.

According to the custom of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Chuanshui, before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, after the whip, the "ancestor worship" began.

I saw that in the hall, Zhang Jianghai had already prepared a large square table, put a few stools, and a few pairs of dishes and chopsticks.

In the closet on the wall, a pair of red candles were lit, and Zhang Jianghai respectfully lit three incense sticks and inserted them in an incense burner full of white rice.

Zhang Mingyu's mother, Chen Xiulian, brought the food on the dinner plate. Zhang Jianghai didn't want others to help, so he carefully took it and placed eight bowls of dishes on the table, braised pork belly, fried tofu, meat balls and braised bream, meat and vegetarian matching, fish and meat. If you look closely, you can see that all four dishes are double-serving.

Chen Xiulian explained with a smile that giving the ancestors a New Year's dinner is called "good things come in pairs".

The toast is exquisite, the wine utensils are prepared by Zhang Jianghai for a long time, a new small wine glass every year, and the wine is a good wine for the newly opened. In the order of the banquet, he poured wine for several glasses first.

"Ancestors, today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, pick up your elders for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the Zhang family has already branched out, and it has lived up to your expectations." Zhang Jianghai said as he put his chopsticks on the side of the vegetable bowl, and then poured another round of wine.

After three rounds, he poured the wine back into the jug, filled it with hot rice, and poured tea on top.

"Ancestors, you old people eat and feast dishes (dialect, meaning to persuade to eat), and now the material conditions are abundant, and there are more banquet dishes." From beginning to end, Zhang Jianghai looked serious and serious, he said that in order not to disturb the ancestors' meals, his body could not contact the dining table.

Then, on the prepared mat, everyone kowtows to their ancestors.

After the ancestor worship ceremony, the brothers and sisters, who were already hungry, saw the colorful and fragrant smell of the New Year on the table, and surrounded the two old people--- Zhang Jianghai and Chen Xiulian, who had been worried about everyone for most of their lives, sat around the table.

According to Zhang Jianghai's request, the eleven brothers and sisters sit at the table regardless of intimacy or separation, and children are no exception.

So, the four sons of the second uncle's family sat with Zhang Mingsheng, Zhang Mingyu and Zhang Jianghai and his wife, plus Li Shulin and Cheng Bing, the eldest son-in-law of the second uncle's family.

The eldest sister, Minghua, sat at another table with her two sisters-in-law (Yuan Youdi, the wife of Brother Mingqiao and Zhu Wenzhi, wife of Ming Han) and several sons-in-law. As soon as she sat down, Minghua's big mouth pursed, and she smiled with a few people at the same table and said,

"You see, my parents treat the sisters indifferently than each other, and when it comes to the New Year's holiday, they expose their love for boys."

"The old people are all the same, don't talk about my father, it's our family, my parents are not the same, otherwise how can I be named Youdi." Sister-in-law Yuan Youdi said. Youdi is "having a younger brother", and the parents-in-law are looking forward to their son's heart being revealed.

Don't know why? The children of the second uncle's family called Zhang Jianghai "father", and Zhang Mingyu found that the people in Mulan Town, Chuanshui, called their father's younger brothers "father", Zhang Mingyu thought to himself, the specific reason is not clear, it may be a more affectionate expression.

Under the call of the eldest brother, Mingqiao, the whole family toasted a glass of wine with Zhang Jianghai and his wife, wishing the old man a long and healthy life.

How happy it is to be reunited as a family! The two old men looked at the juniors with satisfaction, and drank all the wine in their cups without hesitation.

Everyone tasted the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner carefully designed by Chen Xiulian, what a familiar Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and what an intoxicating New Year's taste!

The brothers and sisters ate and drank, and began to enter the toasting session of the warlord melee.

Everyone tacitly followed the order of respect and humility of the old and the young, and toasted in turn, and for a while, the war was raging and surging.

After a while, Mingqiao's eldest brother, Minghan's second brother and several other people who were too drunk had been dizzy by everyone, and they didn't know what to do, when Zhang Mingyu came to Mingqiao, Mingqiao woke up suddenly, called his son over, and said to Zhang Mingyu,

"Mingyu, Jianyun, this kid will be discharged from the army this year, and I will leave the work to you."

It turned out that Zhang Jianyun, the child of the eldest brother Mingqiao, went to join the army five years ago because he didn't want to study, and he had the opportunity to become a compulsory soldier in the army, but unfortunately, he did not pass the examination results, and he could only serve until the second half of this year, and he had to change jobs.

"Big brother, no problem, Jianyun, I heard that you are still an instructor of the army's car driving, yes, your work is on the uncle."

"Uncle, I toast you, thank you." Zhang Jianyun hurriedly said.

Zhang Mingyu saw that Jianyun, the child, had made great progress compared to before, dared to speak, dared to drink, and couldn't help but sigh that the army was really a melting pot, and he dared to make a big change for the child, and dared to change the sun and the moon for a new day.

"Mingyu, big brother, I will retire after this year, and I will help you when the time comes, and I will do something for you," Mingqiao said.

Zhang Mingyu immediately agreed,

"Big brother, I've thought about it a long time ago, if you come over, you can have a companion with your sister-in-law, and you can also manage the warehouse, it's good to have two in one, great."

Zhang Mingyu thought in his heart, sister-in-law Yuan Youdi has already helped manage the canteen in the warehouse of Yuhong Company, if Brother Mingqiao comes over and has strong work ability, he will just pull out the second brother Minghan and be responsible for the processing center or the construction site of Yuhong Tianxia.

Zhang Mingyu pulled Wang Bingqian up again, and toasted the second and third brothers in turn to express their blessings.

Now, the second brother's two daughters have graduated and arranged to work in Yuhong Company, the second sister-in-law followed the second brother of Ming Han to take care of the second brother's daily life, and the youngest son Jianye also transferred from Chuanshui to Jiangcheng High School to study, and the second brother's family lived a very nourishing life.

The third brother's eldest child, Yan Yun, will graduate in one year, his son Jiangong is studying at a secondary school, and the third sister-in-law also followed Mingfeng's third brother around the construction site in Yuhong Tianxia, and contracted the canteen of the construction site by the way.

The two families are very grateful to Zhang Mingyu and his wife, so Zhang Mingyu drank a few more glasses, and Zhang Mingyu said in his heart, it seems that he has to take out the anti-enemy artifact for drinking again today.

When he arrived at the fourth brother, Minghong directly touched two glasses of wine with Zhang Mingyu and his wife without saying a word, and then he called the fourth sister-in-law over and drank a lot.

The fourth sister-in-law, Chen Yufeng, is actually Chen Xiulian's niece, that is, Zhang Mingyu's cousin.

It turned out that Chen Yufeng was the daughter of Zhang Mingyu's cousin, and Chen Xiulian felt that Minghong and Yufeng were very suitable, so she directly made the decision and let Zhang Minghong marry Chen Yufeng.

After a few laps, Zhang Mingyu also felt that he had drunk a little too much, and after using the artifact to resist the enemy, he found that all he had gushed out just now was wine.

Back at the table, the brothers listened to Zhang Jianghai talking,

"In the activities during the Chinese New Year, the taboo of playing glutinous rice is not tight, the New Year's dinner can not be cooked, the simmering soup is afraid that the jar will be broken, the cooking is not burned, the children do not drop the bowl when eating, there is no gap in the fasting meal, the whip should be sounded and the candle should be lit, and the money paper should be burned out."

Zhang Jianghai took a bite of the dish and said to everyone,

"Don't stop, move your chopsticks! How fragrant. ”

Zhang Mingyu and everyone hurriedly picked up the dishes and ate them.

Chen Xiulian beckoned everyone, "Come, try the reserved program of our Zhang family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner,"

You don't need to watch it, Zhang Mingyu knows that the so-called Zhang family's reserved program is a two-course dish made by Chen Xiulian who borrowed Zhang Mingyu's ancestral skills from his grandmother and improved them by herself.

The first dish is Chen Xiulian's own marinated bacon, which is fried over high heat, and the local freshly baked garlic in Sichuan is boiled in an earthen jar.

The second dish is Chen Xiulian carefully processed by herself, the famous local thin thousand skins in Sichuan water, stir-fried with fatty bacon, added water, and then put in mung bean flour, boiled over high heat, and boiled over low heat.

Zhang Mingyu ate two chopsticks and felt very refreshed.

Seeing the fragrance of everyone's eating, Zhang Jianghai began to talk about the story again,

"During the Chinese New Year, there is no disease, the superstition of the past, a disease affects the health of the whole year; In the past, you can't soak in the soup for New Year's dinner, otherwise you will often encounter heavy rain when you go out; During the three-day New Year's Day, men do not hoe, women do not take needles and threads, and there are few fireworks in the house; Seal the door, don't throw away the sealing paper, but burn it before God; Every room is lit at night; The sky lantern is until the end of the Lantern Festival. ”

Zhang Jianghai took a sip of wine and said with a smile,

"Now is the new society, many superstitions have been broken, like sweeping the floor and sweeping inward, garbage is not poured out within three days, this is called accumulating wealth; In the hall, a few charcoals and chopping wood should be placed, and red slips of paper should be circled; Do not go out to carry water within three days, and the water tank of each family should be full of water to ensure that there is water within three days of the New Year, which means "blessed water flows for a long time, and children and grandchildren are rich". These rules are no longer followed. The eldest brother Mingqiao said, "Father, I also heard that during the Chinese New Year in the past, the morning glory went to the pond to drink water, and he wanted to put a whip on the pond, which was borrowed water to drink. ”

"Yes! There are still many rules in the past, which have been lost for a long time, and some rules of respecting the old and loving the young, we can inherit and even carry forward, but some rules have too many superstitious colors, and as people in the new society, we must abandon them. It's the so-called changing customs to celebrate the New Year. ”

Listening, eating, drinking, brotherhood is eternal, talking, laughing, making noise, the taste of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is stronger.

Everyone sighed that time flies and time flies.

The eldest sister's son Li Ming has been tempered by the Jiangcheng City Government, and he already has the legacy of his father, that is, Zhang Mingyu's brother-in-law Li Shulin.

After Li Ming toasted his grandfather and grandmother, he toasted everyone one by one, and it was Zhang Mingyu's turn, Li Shulin called the eldest sister Minghua and said,

"Mingzi, this glass of wine, our family of three respects Uncle Mingyu for a glass, thank you for your uncle's cultivation, thank you ......"

"Brother-in-law, you are tormenting me, where can I afford it?" Zhang Mingyu didn't wait for Li Shulin to finish speaking, and hurriedly said.

"Oops! Uncle, why can't you afford it, Mayor Jiang takes special care of me, and you say the same thing, Director Cui of our government office can't win, besides, uncle, you are still a senior adviser in Jiangcheng City, and you can definitely afford it. ”

Li Ming said humbly.