Chapter 113: Holiday Gifts (Updating for Book Friend Tian Tian's Birthday)
ps: I sincerely send birthday wishes to Tiantian beauty, may you always smile and be as beautiful as a flower, and your youth is praised.? Happy Birthday (*^◎^*)
When Shi Lei went home, his sister's family of three was already waiting at home.
According to the tradition of the family, the brothers-in-law will also bring the rituals and go to the elders with Shi Lei to fulfill the etiquette. The main ones are grandpa's house and grandma's house, which are the two most important ones. As for uncles and aunts, only Shi Lei and his parents went together, and my sister's family didn't have to go.
Mom and Dad have too many brothers and sisters in their generation, so they don't need to send them one by one, because Mom and Dad are the eldest of their respective brothers and sisters, and there are 5 peers below.
Therefore, as the parents who are the biggest on both sides, they will take the lead, and Shi Lan and Shi Lei, who are also the largest in their peers, will also become the benchmark of action among the younger generation and establish the scale of giving gifts.
It's too troublesome and wasteful to send them all, and Shi Lei's generation, basically each family is two children, and generally a boy and a girl, if Shi Lei's parents are sent to this generation, then it will be lively, just entertaining these juniors who come to give gifts is a long-term job, so they simply don't send it.
Shi Lei put away his luggage, didn't care about taking a break, in fact, he didn't need to rest, wearing the clothes he wore when he came, and began to help move things down.
The batch of things that Shi Lei consigned back are still at home, such as fresh vegetables and fruits, etc., are relatively weighed, fortunately, before consignment, the boxes have been divided according to the needs of gifts, and everything is vacuum-packed, which can not only keep fresh, but also easy to move.
Beef or something, it's also vacuum-packed after it's divided, plus wine or something. There's a lot of stuff that needs to be moved downwards.
And these are not all, it can only be regarded as Shi Lei's part of his mind, as well as the things that his parents prepared for his uncle and grandfather, they also need Shi Lei to move down.
Fortunately, when I was decorating my home, I considered that it was inconvenient to move things upstairs, so I bought a kind of flat cart that is common in the wholesale market, which can be folded, and it is much more convenient to transport goods with this thing.
Shi Lei only needs to stack everything on the trolley as much as possible, then push the trolley into the elevator, and then move the things from the trolley to the trunk of the car.
I filled the trunks of my brother-in-law's and the two cars at home. I piled some more on the rear seats, and finally pulled everything on. The family rushed to their hometown and began to give gifts.
The process of giving gifts is actually relatively fast, every time I go to a relative's house, Shi Lei and my parents each hold one or two things, go to someone's house to sit, chat for a while and leave, and then go to the next house. And just like that, it took the whole morning. I almost walked through my relative's house.
The last stop was at grandma's house, according to the tradition of previous years, everyone made an appointment to gather at grandma's house at noon on this day, and then have a reunion dinner together.
The cooking skills of my mother's generation. Most of them have been passed down by their grandmothers, and the meals they make taste very good, but they each have their own characteristics.
So on this day, the pot next to grandma's house will be very lively. Several aunts and uncles and aunts were all circling around the stove, and soon several tables of wine and food came out.
There's no way, now grandma's side is considered to be four generations in the same house. Especially when it comes to my mother's generation, there are 6 sisters, and each family has 2 children, plus the grandson and Guoguo of the third aunt's family, these four generations of people sit together, and one table can't sit at all, even if grandma's house is the kind of big eight-immortal table, it can't hold so many people.
In the end, I had to divide it into two tables, one table was my uncle and father, and Shi Lei, a few young men who had become adults, and other underage children, all ran to the table where the women gathered next door.
Everyone can drink wine, drink if you don't like to drink, a large table of people gathered together in such a reunion festival, the atmosphere seems to be very warm, staggered with each other, drinking lively, eating has not stopped,
Everyone was full of praise for the flavor of these vegetables, fruits and beef sent by Shi Lei, and grandma said very generously that everyone simply took some from her.
However, Shi Lei stopped his grandmother and let them keep it to eat, Shi Lei also had some extra preparations, just to distribute them to a few aunts, of course, Shi Lei's uncles and aunts also had such a share.
After everyone had eaten and drunk, they got together again and started drinking tea and chatting. But soon my sister Shi Lan and the others ran to the house of the uncle in front of them, because my father and they were all smoking, and after a while, it was smoky, not like a fairyland, but like a fire.
Of course, the ladies couldn't stand the smoke, and they all went to their uncle's house early to talk about topics of interest to their women.
However, Shi Lei still saw a more interesting phenomenon, everyone invariably took out the zippo lighter that his father brought back from Midi, and the one in the hands of a few smoking cousins was no exception, which made Shi Lei feel a little unbearable, and at the same time he was thinking that this may also be one of the factors that everyone has a certain change in Shi Lei's attitude.
Although Shi Lei suddenly became rich, and immigrated to Midi's side to become a rancher, but in the final analysis, he is still a junior in the family, so how should everyone treat Shi Lei, Shi Lei also enjoys the harmony and warmth between his family, and there is not so much utilitarianism and calculation.
After everyone had digested it and the wine was almost awake, they began to say goodbye one after another.
Shi Lei's family was the last to go, taking some home-grown vegetables from his grandmother, as well as some pickled vegetables and salted duck eggs made by his grandmother, and the family went to his hometown again, and there was a reunion banquet waiting for everyone.
Almost the same process went through again, two tables were set up at the grandfather's house, and there was basically no difference between the number of adults and children, and everyone sat around eating and drinking very lively.
However, a few uncles and uncles don't drink much like my father, so everyone drinks some red wine or drinks, which is kind of meaningful.
Everyone ate and drank while chatting about some interesting topics, and time passed quickly. Wait until all the two tables are finished. After cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, everyone digested and digested the food and went home.
On the way, Shi Lei and the others said goodbye to their sister's family, and they had to rush back to their brother-in-law's hometown in Mengxian County, according to their traditions, there were many sacrificial activities tonight.
This short reunion with my sister's family can be regarded as over, and they may not come back in the next few days, and they will stay in Mengxian until the end of my sister's vacation.
That's why they're taking Eva the macaw with the same dog they brought back from the Stone Ranch today.
Guoguo is always inseparable from the two pets. If it weren't for my sister and brother-in-law to stop her, Guoguo might have slept in the same bed with the dog every day.
When I met Shi Lei, the two pets were still very affectionate and played with Shi Lei for a while, and it seemed that they had not forgotten the old owner of Shi Lei.
After saying goodbye to his sister's family, his father Shi Yi drove and returned to his hometown with a family of three.
Shi Yi has a homestead in the new village of his hometown, and he has built six large bungalows on this land. Usually, my father mainly uses it in the yard, and he plants a lot of his favorite flowers and plants on the roof of the bungalow. There are also a lot of vegetables in front of and behind the house, as well as flowers such as wisteria and roses that can climb the wall, and the bamboo poles that have been erected cover the sky between the bungalows, and the outer walls are also covered with creepers.
There are many flowers and plants in the house. But my father's favorite, there are more than a dozen osmanthus alone, some of which are planted in pots, and those plants are relatively large. It's all been transplanted into the garden ground.
Now is the time when the autumn osmanthus is fragrant, and the osmanthus, golden cinnamon, and silver cinnamon are competing for beauty, and it can't be said that the fragrance is ten miles. In the village, there is no problem to smell the fragrance of osmanthus at home.
Now my father and mother have officially gone through the retirement procedures after the start of school, and the two of them who have nothing to do have nothing to do spend a large part of their time in their hometown.
The home has 4 bedrooms and also has full bedding and beds, so it is very convenient to come and stay at home. Two steps away from the main street of the village, there is always an endless stream of stalls, and it is very convenient to buy some food.
It takes a long time for the two to take care of flowers and vegetables at home, and they keep watering flowers and weeds every day, and there is always endless work, which is a healthy way to exercise, and both of them are very energetic, which is even more rare.
As soon as he came back, my father couldn't stay idle, and he couldn't care about watching the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he called his mother and was about to start watering the flowers and vegetables.
Time always flies quickly in the busy, and when Shi Lei and his parents finished their work and washed their hands, they found that it was already more than 11 o'clock at night, so it was right to quickly wash up and go back to sleep.
The next day, Shi Lei was finally able to sleep lazily, and he also adjusted his biological clock a little. By the time he got up, his parents had already eaten breakfast and gone out to work.
When Shi Lei found them, the work was almost done, and Shi Lei had to go back to eat a hot breakfast by himself.
Leaving his parents in his hometown, Shi Lei drove on the road alone, went back to the house in the city, and got some of the things he brought back this time.
Brought some of the various gadgets to the few students who were interested in it, and then Shi Lei drove straight to the meeting place of this party, the entrance of the golf course in Yizhou University Town.
On the campus of Yizhou University, it has its own standard 18-hole golf course and supporting practice venues, because Yizhou University has golf-related majors.
Of course, it is also partially open to the public, and it is a key project of the university to generate income, so it can be said that it is a place that has both face and benefits.
Next to the golf course is the largest man-made lake in the university, surrounded by wooden plank paths, pavilions for decoration, and nine-curved corridors.
There are also a lot of exotic flowers and plants planted along the shore of the artificial lake, which decorates this place very poetically and naturally, and it is also the biggest dating resort in the university.
Every time Shi Lei came over, he could always meet a lot of wild mandarin ducks who were in and out of pairs, which made him a little embarrassed to go in and out of here alone.
Especially when I came to reminisce about my youthful years after graduation, and was called uncle by my freshman sister.
Since then, Shi Lei, who has always been alone, has never been embarrassed to come over to see it. (To be continued......) R527